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Alien World Conditions Explored -- on Earth

In its hunt for Earth-like worlds, NASA's Kepler telescope, scheduled for launch tonight, should tell us something about the planets that occupy sibling solar systems. Some scientists, however, are crossing that frontier without leaving their laboratories.

They have uncovered worlds where helium, normally a transparent gas that can't hold an electric charge, becomes fluid metal that can conduct electricity. They have probed the melting point of diamonds to understand the building blocks of icy planets like Neptune.

The experiments have been largely based on millions of computations, though that is about to change with the debut this year of a new national laboratory that has the power to compress hydrogen down to the density of copper.