Historic crystal find: Researchers discovered a calcium–copper–silicon clathrate in debris from the 1945 Trinity nuclear test, marking the first such crystal from a nuclear explosion. Extreme ...

Historic blast's legacy: The 1945 Trinity nuclear test produced red trinitite, a glassy material now yielding unprecedented mineral discoveries. Unique crystal found: Scientists identified a ...

A team of geologists at the University of Florence, Italy, identified a novel clathrate that formed during the Trinity nuclear test on July 16, 1945, in the New Mexico desert. It's a material never ...

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Incident light images of the red trinitite sample used in this study (front and back of the sample). Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2026). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2604165123 Matter ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The only well-exposed color image of the Trinity test. (Jack W. Aeby/Manhattan Project/Public Domain) We don't always get to ...

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People in New Mexico who developed cancer and suffered other health issues in the decades following the 1945 Trinity nuclear test are now eligible for compensation. The Trinity test, which happened 80 ...

On July 16, 1945, the United States carried out the Trinity test, the world’s first nuclear detonation. Today, 80 years later, the University of Chicago — the site of the first self-sustaining nuclear ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Downwinders held an annual memorial on the 80th anniversary of the Trinity Test, honoring those who have suffered and died as a ...

WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M. — Trinity. The test that changed the course of human history, with the first detonation of a nuclear weapon in the world – right here in New Mexico. Located two hours ...

Color photo of the mushroom cloud from the Trinity Test in 1945, taken by Jack Aeby Eighty years ago Wednesday, on July 16, 1945, the world changed forever when the first atomic bomb was detonated in ...