Z machine puts the squeeze on metallic deuterium

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Source: Randy Montoya / Sandia Labs (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Pressures similar to those at centre of the Earth forge metallic deuterium in step toward 80-year-old dream of creating metallic hydrogen

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