Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The 1945 Trinity nuclear test fused desert sand and bomb-tower materials into trinitite—a glassy substance unlike anything humans had created before.

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 ...

Historic blast yields crystal: Researchers found a previously unknown calcium–copper–silicon clathrate in debris from the 1945 Trinity nuclear test, the first of its kind from a nuclear explosion.

STRONG STORMS MOVING THROUGH. ANOTHER BIG STORY WE’RE FOLLOWING RIGHT NOW. AN EXPLOSION AND FIRE AT THE CHALMETTE REFINERY, RATTLING NEIGHBORS FOR MILES. THANKFULLY, NO ONE WAS HURT. EVERYONE IS ...

The moment an explosion happened at the Chalmette Refinery was captured on a doorbell camera. The video, provided to WDSU by Blair Torres, shows the moment the explosion rocked the entirety of St.

CHALMETTE, La. (WVUE) - Fire crews remained inside Chalmette Refining on Friday afternoon, dousing tanks with water to cool them down after an explosion and fire at the refinery. The explosion was ...

PEARLAND, Texas — Six people were injured after fuel was added to a small outdoor fire that triggered an explosion outside a Pearland mobile home Sunday night, according to fire officials. The ...

Shardaa Gray is a Multimedia Reporter for CBS 2 Chicago. She joined the team in December 2021. She was born and raised in the south suburbs. She's happy to return home to report on her community.

At first, David Elze thought lightning or a tree hit the building where he works in Logan Township, New Jersey, as tiles fell from the ceiling Wednesday afternoon. But it wasn't either of those things ...

The 11 injuries that came after a possible boat explosion in Miami may be tied to the boat's hatches that were allegedly not open when the ignition was started, an eyewitness told local media outlet ...

PEARLAND, Texas – Six people are recovering Monday morning after a bonfire in Pearland exploded. One of the injured is in critical condition. All are expected to survive. Someone poured high-octane ...