Hydrogen turned into metal in stunning act of alchemy

Looks like it'll be a few months before we know if it's metastable at ambient pressure; they're planning to do the pressure release experiments at one of the national labs [0].

Here's the preprint [1] of the Science paper [2], and the HN discussion [3].

[0]: http://harvardmagazine.com/2017/01/metallic-hydrogenhttp://h...

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.01634https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.0...

[2]: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2017/01/25/scien...

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12875868https://news.yc...