Scientists transform water into shiny, golden metal

Scientists transform water into shiny, golden metal | Remains of more than 1,000 Indigenous children found at former residential schools in Canada | What's it like inside a kangaroo pouch? Created for {EMAIL} | [Web Version]( January 10, 2022 CONNECT WITH LIVESCIENCE  [Facebook]( [Twitter](  [LIVESCIENCE]( [LIVESCIENCE]( Amazing science every day [SIGN UP]( ⋅ [WEBSITE](  [] Top Science News [] [Scientists transform water into shiny, golden metal]( [Scientists transform water into shiny, golden metal]( (HZB) In a mind-bending experiment, scientists transformed purified water into metal for a few fleeting seconds, thus allowing the liquid to conduct electricity. Unfiltered water can already conduct electricity — meaning negatively charged electrons can easily flow between its molecules — because unfiltered water contains salts, according to a statement about the new study. However, purified water contains only water molecules, whose outermost electrons remain bound to their designated atoms, and thus, they can't flow freely through the water. Full Story: [Live Science]( (1/8) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] History & Archaeology [] [Remains of more than 1,000 Indigenous children found at former residential schools in Canada]( [Remains of more than 1,000 Indigenous children found at former residential schools in Canada]( (Rick Madonik/Toronto Star via Getty Images) Unmarked graves that may hold the bodies of more than 160 Indigenous children were found this month on Penelakut Island, previously known as Kuper Island, in British Columbia, Canada. Representatives of the Penelakut Tribe found the graves on the grounds of the former Kuper Island Industrial School, part of a network of mandatory state-run boarding schools for Indigenous children in Canada that subjected children to traumatic family separation, cultural erasure, and abuse. Penelakut Tribe members revealed the discovery in a newsletter that they shared online with neighboring tribes on July 8. Full Story: [Live Science]( (1/9) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] Life’s Little Mysteries [] [What's it like inside a kangaroo pouch?]( [What's it like inside a kangaroo pouch?]( (CraigRJD via Getty Images) Although many marsupials raise their young in pouches — including opossums, Tasmanian devils and even koalas — kangaroos are almost certainly the most iconic. So what's it like inside a kangaroo's pouch? Full Story: [Live Science]( (1/9) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] [Why don't we breathe equally out of both nostrils?]( [Why don't we breathe equally out of both nostrils?]( (Boris Zhitkov via Getty Images) If you get close to a mirror and breathe out through your nose, the mirror will fog up. Two marks of water vapor will pool on the surface, one for each nostril. But one mark will be larger than the other, because people breathe mostly out of one nostril at a time. So why do we rarely breathe out of both nostrils at once? Full Story: [Live Science]( (1/9) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] [Why does cannabis smell skunky?]( [Why does cannabis smell skunky?]( (Shutterstock) If you've ever taken a whiff of well-preserved, unburned cannabis buds, and thought you smelled something skunky — or, less likely, been on the receiving end of skunk spray and wondered why you reeked of cannabis — you might wonder why the two smell so similar. In other words, why does cannabis smell so much like skunk spray? It turns out, the stinky culprits in both substances belong to a family of prenylated volatile sulfur compounds (VSCs), a subset of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), according to a 2021 study published in the journal ACS Omega. Full Story: [Live Science]( (1/8) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] Space Exploration [] [Hubble Space Telescope hits record-breaking 1 billion seconds in the final frontier]( [Hubble Space Telescope hits record-breaking 1 billion seconds in the final frontier]( (NASA) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has reached a major milestone: one billion seconds in the final frontier. The famous observatory launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the space shuttle Discovery. Hubble was deployed into orbit the following day, beginning its mission to explore the vast universe, including distant galaxies, supernovas, nebulas and exoplanets. On Jan. 1, 2022, the space telescope officially reached one billion seconds in space, which is about 31.7 years. Full Story: [Live Science]( (1/8) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] Math & Physics [] [4 bizarre Stephen Hawking theories that turned out to be right (and 6 we're not sure about)]( [4 bizarre Stephen Hawking theories that turned out to be right (and 6 we're not sure about)]( (Getty Images) Stephen Hawking was one of the greatest theoretical physicists of the modern age. Best known for his appearances in popular media and his lifelong battle against debilitating illness, his true impact on posterity comes from his brilliant five-decade career in science. Beginning with his doctoral thesis in 1966, his groundbreaking work continued nonstop right up to his final paper in 2018, completed just days before his death at the age of 76. Full Story: [Live Science]( (1/9) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] Daily Quiz [] POLL QUESTION: How much water is in Earth's atmosphere? 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