If you take a close look at the beaches of Motoujina Peninsula in Japan, you'll find the sand is littered with tiny glass beads strangely shaped like teardrops as if they've been blasted down from the skies. It might come as no surprise that these unusual objects are the relics of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in the dying days of World War Two. As reported in the journal Anthropocene, these pieces of debris – dubbed "Hiroshimaites" – are essentially the remains of the city that were blasted into the skies, cooked in an atomic cloud, and later rained down. While sifting through the sands of Hiroshima Bay and Miyajima Island, geologist Mario Wannier started to notice these glassy flecks and set out on a journey to discover how exactly they were created. In the samples of sand he and his team collected, they found the spheroids and other unusual particles accounted for up to 2.5 percent of all of the grains. Although most unusual, the teeny structures did remind Wannier of other