{
  "id": 476373,
  "title": "The Hiroshima Atomic Bombing Birthed a Strange, Never-Before-Seen Material, According to a New Study",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/10/the-hiroshima-atomic-bombing-birthed-a-strange-never-before-seen",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-10T14:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Smithsonian",
    "slug": "smithsonian",
    "url": "https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-hiroshima-atomic-bombing-birthed-a-strange-never-before-seen-material-according-to-a-new-study-180989249/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The devastating blast vaporized buildings, metal, glass, soil and water. When the substances cooled and condensed, the process created spherical glassy grains—and some of them seem to contain a previously unknown metal alloy",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "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."
}