In an instant, the bomb obliterated everything. The tower it sat on and the copper wires strung around it: vaporized. The desert sand below: melted. In the aftermath of the first test of an atomic ...
The detonation of the first atomic bomb during the 1945 Trinity Test produced temperatures and pressures so extreme that the surrounding sand fused into a glassy material called trinitite. Physicists ...
Decades-old radioactive glass found blanketing the ground after the first nuclear test bomb explosion is being used by scientists to examine theories about the Moon’s formation some 4.5 billion years ...
New Mexico is a long way from the moon. But for a new study published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, a San Diego scientist interested in the moon's early formation looked at New Mexico ...
The explosion that opened the atomic age more than 70 years ago is helping scientists better understand another dramatic event: the formation of the moon. On July 16, 1945, the U.S. Army detonated the ...
LOWELL, Mass. - A UMass Lowell geologist is among the researchers who have discovered a new type of manmade quasicrystal created by the first test blast of an atomic bomb. The formation holds promise ...
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 ...
The explosion that opened the atomic age more than 70 years ago is helping scientists better understand another dramatic event: the formation of the moon. On July 16, 1945, the U.S. Army detonated the ...
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 ...
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