{"id":3926856,"date":"2026-07-07T13:03:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/measuring-iron-in-motion-at-earth-core-conditions\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T13:03:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:03:19","slug":"measuring-iron-in-motion-at-earth-core-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/measuring-iron-in-motion-at-earth-core-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Measuring iron in motion at Earth-core conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>It was a journey to the center of the Earth, if only for the briefest of moments. But rather than tunneling thousands of miles from Earth&#8217;s surface, researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and several universities used the National Ignition Facility (NIF) to recreate the extreme temperature and pressure conditions of Earth&#8217;s inner core. This enabled the first-ever simultaneous measurement of iron&#8217;s dynamic strength at relevant temperatures and pressures.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-07-iron-motion-earth-core-conditions.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a journey to the center of the Earth, if only for the briefest of moments. But rather than tunneling thousands of miles from Earth&#8217;s surface, researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and several universities used the National Ignition Facility (NIF) to recreate the extreme temperature and pressure conditions of Earth&#8217;s inner core. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3926856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}