Scientists Found a New Type of Crystal Formed by the World’s First Nuclear Explosion

The 1945 Trinity nuclear test fused desert sand and bomb-tower materials into trinitite—a glassy substance unlike anything ...
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All accounted for, 3 firefighters injured after explosion sparks fire at NH building

JUST IN FROM THE STATE FIRE MARSHAL JOHN. YEAH. AND INVESTIGATORS, THEY HAVEN’T CLARIFIED WHETHER THEY BELIEVE THAT THIS GAS LINE MAY HAVE BEEN DAMAGED, BUT TYPICALLY A GAS LINE IS EXPOSED RIGHT AT ...
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The First Atomic Bomb Made a Crystal Scientists Had Never Seen Before

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

80 years after the Trinity nuclear test, scientists identify new molecule-trapping crystal formed in the blast

Matter behaves strangely under extreme conditions, and often, remnants of these behaviors are left behind even when ...
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Supersonic airliners, ozone, and wildfire smoke: Origins of the nuclear winter theory

When atmospheric chemists Paul Crutzen and John Birks added smoke into their computer models of nuclear war scenarios, they ...

101 things you thought were true, but have actually been debunked by science

These myths, misconceptions, and inaccuracies have been passed down through the ages. It's time to put an end to them.

Social media videos claim 213,000 Oregonians are in a volcanic death zone — here’s what scientists actually say

Social media videos are stoking fears about a catastrophic eruption in central Oregon, but the science tells a different ...