Metallic Hydrogen at Last?

"We have produced atomic metallic hydrogen in the laboratory at high pressure and low temperature," say Harvard scientists Isaac Silvera and Ranga Dias in a new article that appears today in the AAAS journal Science. This straightforward comment could mean the end of an 80-year quest...and the start of an energy revolution. This image shows diamond anvils (green) compressing molecular hydrogen. At high pressure the sample converts to atomic metallic hydrogen, as shown on the right.Image Credit: ...