The quest to make metallic hydrogen has been long and arduous. Victory has been declared several times, and sometimes retracted. Scientists predicted hydrogen’s metallic state—which could be useful as ...

New experiment deciphers an important intermediate step towards a new phase of matter. (Nanowerk News) Usually, hydrogen is a colourless gas. Under ultra-high pressure, however, this simplest of all ...

The scientists found that hydrogen transitioned into a metal when subjected to around 425 billion pascals, according to research published to the preprint server ArXiv. That’s nearly 4.2 million times ...

Several groups have claimed experimental evidence of metallic hydrogen at very high pressures over the past few years. The material is theorized to be a near-room temperature superconductor, but the ...

Producing metallic hydrogen (MH) in the laboratory has been a challenge for over 80 years. Wigner and Huntington predicted that when hydrogen was compressed to high density at low temperature, the ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. A combination of still photos taken from video shows hydrogen magnified at different ...

A team of French researchers has posted a paper online in which they claim to have achieved the holy grail of extreme-pressure materials science: creating metallic hydrogen in a laboratory. Physicists ...