Summary

Water is crucial for life to flourish, which is why it's something scientists search for first on other planets – but can we really be sure what water looks like in alien environments? In a new study published in Communications Chemistry , researchers in the US put water under the kind of pressure it would experience on planets like Uranus or Neptune and found that its fundamental atomic structure changes in response.

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