In a few highly specialized laboratories, scientists bombard matter with the world’s most powerful electrical pulses or zap it with sophisticated lasers. Other labs squeeze heavy-duty diamonds ...

Hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe, is found everywhere from the dust filling most of outer space to the cores of stars to many substances here on Earth. This would be reason enough ...

A crushing squeeze between diamonds has pushed hydrogen to the brink of morphing into a metal. Scientists in Scotland and China discovered a new solid phase of hydrogen after subjecting the universe’s ...

Both the structure and electrical conduction of solid hydrogen have been intensively studied since the 1930s, when the existence of its metallic state was first proposed. Experiments conducted in the ...

Hydrogen may be one of the most abundant elements found in the universe, but scientists believe that there is a high-pressure form of hydrogen that is amazingly rare. Indeed, it is thought that it can ...

Under pressure: Isaac Silvera and Ranga Dias faced disbelief when they announced their finding. (Courtesy: Ranga Dias and Isaac Silvera) Scientists aren’t immune to the allure of rare metals. Isaac ...

Being the first element to form, hydrogen holds clues about the distribution of matter in our universe. Normally a gas, hydrogen exists as a solid under ultra-high-pressure conditions commonly found ...

Researchers at Harvard University say they've managed to create a potentially revolutionary material that has only been imagined in theory for the past several decades: solid metallic hydrogen. Back ...

Hydrogen is most commonly found as a gas floating in our atmosphere, but it can take many forms. Many rocket engines, for instance, used ultra-cold liquid hydrogen as a propellant, and cooling the ...