What's shiny and conducts electricity? The answer is usually a metal. Then, there's hydrogen, a colorless and odorless gas. At least at first glance, it's not an element that suggests metallic ...

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 ...

Almost a century after metallic hydrogen was introduced as a theory, Harvard scientists succeeded in finally bringing it to reality. Atomic metallic hydrogen, one of the rarest and most valuable ...

Jupiter and Saturn look serene through a backyard telescope, but beneath and around their clouds, both worlds are in dramatic ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...

Smooth transition: a machine learning study of metallic hydrogen could shed light on the interiors of gas giants like Jupiter. (Courtesy: NASA/ESA/A Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center)/MH Wong ...

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 ...

Oxford nanoSystems (OnS), a materials technology company, has claimed that its nanoFLUX metallic-alloy coating significantly improves hydrogen production capacity in alkaline electrolyzers by more ...