Researchers Find ‘Forbidden’ Quasicrystal in Wake of Nuclear Bomb Test
It’s reasonable to think of nuclear bombs in terms of their destructive capabilities; splitting the atom means obliteration for anything in the blast radius. But, as a team of geologists and physicists recently figured out, it also means creation: specifically, the transfiguration of ordinary crystalline structures into previously unimaginable geometries. On July 16, 1945, a…
