New Developments in the Quest for Metallic Hydrogen

Scientists have recently added key details to a kind of map that could lead to the ultimate prize in high pressure physics: the creation of metallic hydrogen.Hydrogen is number one on the periodic table. It's the simplest, lightest, most abundant element in the universe, with just one proton and one electron. But even the unassuming element has its mysteries.One of the mysteries revolves around a 1935 prediction by physicists Eugene Wigner and Hillard Bell Huntington that hydrogen can become met...