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 ...

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 ...

On 16 July 1945, in a remote part of the New Mexico desert, a team of researchers and military personnel witnessed the moment when humanity’s relationship with nature changed forever: when the energy ...

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 ...