Matter behaves strangely under extreme conditions, and often, remnants of these behaviors are left behind even when conditions return to normal. The Trinity nuclear test in 1945 left behind such ...

At 5:29am on July 16, 1945, humanity lurched into the birth of a dangerous new era as the world's very first nuclear ...

(Corrections & Clarifications: This story previously misstated how far nuclear fallout from the government's atomic tests reached. Fallout from the initial Trinity Test reached 46 of the 48 contiguous ...

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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 ...

Editor's note: If you'd like to pinpoint the instant when the world entered the nuclear age, 5:29:45 a.m. Mountain War Time on 16 July 1945, is an excellent choice. That was the moment when human ...

Researchers have discovered a new clathrate material in trinitite glass from the 1945 Trinity nuclear test, offering insights into extreme conditions that create unique atomic structures.

Ty Bannerman will read from and sign copies of “Nuclear Family: a memoir of the atomic west” at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, as part of the Bad Mouth Reading Series at the q-Staff Theatre, 400 Broadway ...

Top US scientists called on President Donald Trump- Thursday to not resume nuclear weapons tests, saying such tests would heighten the risk of a nuclear war. In a letter published on the 75th ...

Editor’s note: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists presents here, from its September 1946 issue, an eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb test in the Marshall Islands. In it, the author not ...