Bizarre crystal found at world's first nuclear blast site was made from wires

On July 16, 1945, the US conducted the world’s first nuclear bomb test, an event codenamed Trinity. The test took place a couple of hundred miles south of Los Alamos, New Mexico, home of the iconic Los Alamos National Laboratory. That same lab has published a new study on a type of extreme rare crystal called a quasicrystal — one …