In autumn 1945, Lincoln LaPaz crouched over a patch of scorched ground in the Jornada del Muerto desert of New Mexico. LaPaz, an astronomer, was out hunting for meteorites. He had spotted something in ...

The energy is off in the art world and beyond, and this summer in particular, the weight of the unease has been hard to ignore. From exhibition censorship and defunding of art organizations to ...

Eighty years ago today, at 5:29 am on the morning of 16 July 1945, in the state of New Mexico, a dreadful slice of history was made. The dawn calm was torn asunder as the United States Army detonated ...

Jack Nicholson fans went wild as he was pictured for the first time in years (Picture: Getty) Jack Nicholson has been pictured for the first time in nearly two years, as he enjoyed the festive period ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. At a gate topped by barbed wire just north of White Sands Missile Range, a miles-long line of vehicles formed before dawn on Saturday. Once or twice a year, the ...

“Trinitite just so happened to be green, a green glass, technically … ” At a certain point you shut off your phone, ignoring several unreturned texts and unanswered calls. Down to business. On Netflix ...

The Trinity Test was the first nuclear explosion in history. On July 16, 1945, Los Alamos scientists set off the first atomic bomb in New Mexico’s desert. That test is part of a legacy of weapons ...

At 5:30 A.M. local time on July 16th, 1945, a bomb was detonated in the deserts of New Mexico at a site 210 miles south of Los Alamos, codename Trinity. The intense heat and pressure emanating off the ...

Fifteen seconds before 5.30 am on July 16, 1945, above an area of New Mexico desert so unforgivingly dry that earlier travelers christened it the Jornada del Muerto (Journey of the Dead Man), a new ...

“Oppenheimer” may have given the Trinity Site a boost of fame this summer, but for many history buffs, making a pilgrimage to the area is a journey years in the making. Nearly 4,000 people flocked to ...