Scientists Scan Gruesome Crystal Formed by Nuclear Blast, Find Something Bizarre

Researchers scanned a rare red trinitite crystal from the 1945 Trinity nuclear test and found a previously unseen clathrate structure inside it.

The structure is a lattice that traps atoms, and it has not been identified in nature or in nuclear blast debris before.

The discovery shows that extreme explosion conditions can create unusual new materials, offering fresh insight into fallout remnants.