Nearly 80 years after the event, trinitite still has the power to amaze.

Scientists have revealed something within a trinitite crystal formed during a 1945 nuclear blast that has never been seen ...

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.

The Trinity test may have went down in 1945, but scientists are still finding new discoveries at the blast site. The post ...

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

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

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 ...

Scientifically speaking, the term “crystal” refers to any solid that has an ordered chemical structure. This means that its parts are arranged in a precisely ordered pattern, like bricks in a wall.

The Trinity test near Alamogordo, New Mexico, generated the glassy substance known as trinitite when sand and surrounding ...