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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The hydrogen fuel tank of a Toyota vehicle on display. What's shiny and conducts electricity? The answer is usually a metal. Then, ...

Physicists and material scientists have been trying to metallize hydrogen for many decades, but they have not yet succeeded. In 1968, British physicist Neil Ashcroft predicted that atomic metallic ...

Hydrogen, the most common element in the universe, is normally an insulating gas, but at high pressures it may turn into a superconductor. Now, scientists at the Carnegie Institution in Washington D.C ...

While we often think of chemical elements as immutable – a metal is a metal, a gas is a gas, and so forth – these properties are what we experience on here on Earth. The universe, however, is filled ...

Hydrogen is one of the most abundant elements in the universe. On Earth, hydrogen is normally a gas. But when it is under high temperatures and pressures—the conditions that exist within many planets, ...

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With gentle pulses from gigantic lasers, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California transformed hydrogen into droplets of shiny liquid metal. Their research, reported Thursday ...

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Hydrogen is the most-abundant element in the universe. It’s also the simplest–sporting only a single electron in each atom. But that simplicity is deceptive, because there is still so much we have to ...