The Cool Science Stuff Thread

Superionic core

Well, who'd have thought. The Earth's core is turning into a weird puzzle for geophyschem bods
"In a superionic material, some of the atoms arrange neatly, as in a solid, while others are liquid-like free spirits that slip right through the solid lattice. In the simulation, the researchers found, the lighter elements moved about while the iron stayed in place."

Sounds like witchcraft to me and the closer you look, the stranger it becomes
They have developed that so it detects voids under the surface up to half a kilometre down. Previous methods only reached two to three metres.
 
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