(via Seeker) Making hydrogen a metal takes lot of pressure. But after a group of scientist’s lost the world’s first sample, the pressure is really on.

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have discovered new high-pressure structures in the elements tellurium and selenium. This information could allow scientists to understand more about the ...

A solid-state transformation in oxygen that physicists had long thought might occur has finally been observed. Oxygen is a highly magnetic molecular solid at low temperatures, but physicists had for ...

Describe the kinetic theory and use it to describe the behavior of gases. Kinetic Theory, Atmospheric Pressure and Gas Pressure: Describe the kinetic theory and use it to describe the behavior of ...

Remarkable things happen when a “squishy” compound of manganese and sulfide (MnS2) is compressed in a diamond anvil, say researchers from the University of Rochester and the University of Nevada, Las ...