Boing Boing, August 8, 2026

A Hiroshima Bay alloy, GPS gone over New Mexico, and paved-over wetlands

Happy Saturday! Today's stories: A new alloy turned up in a single grain of sand from Hiroshima Bay. Four people died after a military exercise cut GPS access over New Mexico. Astronomers captured the sharpest images of the Sun ever taken, showing its surface swirling. And Google has proposed paving over protected wetlands to build a data center. Thanks…