Matter behaves strangely under extreme conditions, and often, remnants of these behaviors are left behind even when ...

Samples of "trinitite" created during the world’s first nuclear bomb test in 1945 contain unique crystals never seen before.

“Extreme, transient conditions produced by nuclear detonations can generate solid-state phases inaccessible to conventional ...

A CRYSTAL which was created during the world’s first nuclear blast has been discovered – and experts claim it shouldn’t even ...

In an instant, the bomb obliterated everything. The tower it sat on and the copper wires strung around it: vaporized. The desert sand below: melted. In the aftermath of the first test of an atomic ...

The only well-exposed color image of the Trinity test. (Jack W. Aeby/Manhattan Project/Public Domain) We don't always get to ...

Historic crystal find: Scientists discovered a unique calcium–copper–silicon clathrate in red trinitite from the 1945 Trinity nuclear test, marking the first such crystal from a nuclear blast. Extreme ...

Before trinitite, the only known naturally formed quasicrystal came from meteorite fragments, likely produced during a ...

An unusual crystal created by America’s first nuclear bomb test could help scientists understand a structure needed for ...