ZME Science May 12, 2026 • 20:06

The First Atomic Bomb Made a Crystal Scientists Had Never Seen Before - ZME Science

By Tibi Puiu

The First Atomic Bomb Made a Crystal Scientists Had Never Seen Before - ZME Science

Trinitite still holds strange matter forged in seconds by the Trinity blast.

Just for illustrative purposes; AI-generated. Credit: ZME Science.
At 5:29 a.m. on July 16, 1945, the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico, briefly became a furnace unlike any on Earths surface. The … [+8133 chars]

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