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 ...

Metallic hydrogen, a bizarre form of the element that conducts electricity even at low temperatures, has finally been made in the lab, 80 years after physicists predicted its existence. Scientists ...

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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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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...