On July 16, 1945, humanity carried out the very first successful atomic bomb test at the Trinity site in the desert of New Mexico. This plutonium-based device used an implosion-based design, which was ...

5:30 A.M., Monday July 16th, 1945: The day dawned brighter than ever before over the New Mexico desert. But it was not the Sun's soothing rays that set the landscape alight; it was the radiant flash ...

Smooth jade-green glass formed by the world’s first atomic bomb test 60 years ago at Trinity Site in New Mexico wasn’t created the way previously believed, say two scientists whose hobby is studying ...

Radioactive glass left over from the first ever test of a nuclear bomb is providing scientists with clues about the formation of Earth’s Moon. This glassy bomb byproduct is revealing how certain ...

Using fragments of radioactive glass picked up from the site of the first nuclear bomb explosion in the United States, scientists are trying to explain the mystery behind the formation of the moon and ...

Professor Nelson Eby, Department of Environmental, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, UMass Lowell with give a talk on "Trinite: The Atomic Rock" Abstract: Trinitite (the atomic rock) is a glass formed ...

Tucked away in a corner amid stacks of books and papers in Prof. Nelson Eby’s office in Olney Hall is a box containing small shards of dark, greenish glass. “They are called trinitite,” says Eby. “And ...

The atomic age dawned at 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945, when the United States detonated a device nicknamed “Gadget” in the New Mexico desert, triggering Earth’s first ever atomic blast. The ...

How did the Moon form 4.5 billion years ago, and why is it so different from the Earth? According to a team led by John Day at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San ...

During his first visit to New Mexico’s Trinity Site, where the world’s first atomic bomb test occurred, polymer scientist Robb Hermes could feel the military police watching him. Or maybe it was just ...

Manhattan project aimed at producing atomic bombs to compete with Axis countries such as Nazi Germany. The research team led by Robert Oppenheimer, who was in charge of science, will finally conduct ...

While some byproducts recall an idyllic piece of Americana, others remind us that the past is not always so bright and cheerful. Trinitite, created unintentionally during the development of the first ...