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(Nanowerk News) Imagine an alien world with oceans of liquid metal. If such a world exists, metallic elements are likely the sources of the dissolved materials and particles in these oceans.

Shuai Wei receives funding from Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation. Metals are one of the most-used materials in the modern built world, found in everything from buildings to aircraft to smartphones.

A team of scientists may have given hydrogen a squeeze strong enough to turn it into a metal. But critics vigorously dispute the claim. Researchers from Harvard University report that under extremely ...