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Water Does Something Unexpected Under The Crushing Pressures of Alien Worlds


Water is crucial for life to flourish, which is why it's something scientists search for first on other planets – but can we really be sure what water looks like in alien environments? In a new study published in Communications Chemistry, researchers in the US put water under the kind of pressure it would experience on planets like Uranus or Neptune and found that its fundamental atomic structure changes in response.

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