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 ...

Jupiter and Saturn look serene through a backyard telescope, but beneath and around their clouds, both worlds are in dramatic flux. Deep inside Jupiter, hydrogen is crushed into a strange liquid metal ...

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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 ...

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