Nearly 80 years after the event, trinitite still has the power to amaze.
Samples of "trinitite" created during the world’s first nuclear bomb test in 1945 contain unique crystals never seen before.
Before trinitite, the only known naturally formed quasicrystal came from meteorite fragments, likely produced during a ...
Symmetry is one of the most fundamental principles in nature. It describes the rules that make an object look unchanged after ...
Scientists observe a visible time crystal for the first time, revealing a phase of matter that repeats patterns through time.
A strange kind of matter that “ticks” forever without energy input has just taken a major leap toward real-world use. Known ...
A crystal radio is basically a high Q resonator tied to an antenna and an envelope detector. These days the envelope detector is a point contact diode such as a 1N34 Germanium diode. The resonant ...