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Inside Uranus and Neptune: A Weird New State of Matter Found!

Tuesday 21 April 2026 ScienceDaily
Inside Uranus and Neptune: A Weird New State of Matter Found!

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Deep inside the ice giant planets Uranus and Neptune, scientists discovered something amazing—a bizarre new type of matter that is part solid and part liquid all at the same time! Under the crushing pressure and extreme heat deep inside these planets, atoms behave in super strange ways that we've never seen before. This discovery might help explain why these distant planets have such weird and powerful magnetic fields!
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