{
  "id": 17767,
  "title": "Bizarre new material discovered in Hiroshima bombing debris",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/07/29/bizarre-new-material-discovered-in-hiroshima-bombing-debris",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-07-29T18:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Scientific American",
    "slug": "scientific-american",
    "url": "https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bizarre-new-material-discovered-in-hiroshima-bombing-debris/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Scientists have discovered a new metallic alloy created by the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima. This unique material, found in microscopic debris along the city's beaches, is unlike anything previously seen in nature or in the lab. The extreme heat and rapid cooling of the explosion caused different materials to vaporize and combine in ways they usually wouldn't, forming a homogeneous cubic lattice of iron, chromium, nickel, manganese, molybdenum, silicon, and aluminum. This discovery, published in Science Advances, opens new questions about the potential substances that extreme events can create and whether they represent a broader class of materials. The alloy could help scientists better understand quasicrystals, rare materials with nonrepeating atomic structures that have also been found in meteorites.",
  "summary": "The extreme conditions of atomic bomb explosions create “uncontrolled microexperiments” that, in Hiroshima, forged a never-before-seen metallic alloy",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}