This man’s brain turned to glass 2,000 years ago—scientists think they know why
Nearly 2,000 years ago, a young man's brain in Herculaneum turned to glass during Mount Vesuvius' eruption, due to extreme ...
Archaeologists reveal brain turned to glass in 500C 'ash cloud' from Pompeii volcano eruption
The research team used X-ray imaging and electron microscopy work out that the brain must have been heated to at least 510C ...
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From Flesh to Glass: How Mount Vesuvius’ Inferno Preserved a Roman Brain for Eternity
A young Roman's final moments in Herculaneum were so intense that when Mount Vesuvius erupted, his brain didn’t burn—it ...
Democratic appropriators say Republicans have left US government funding talks, raising risk of shutdown
Top Democrats on the U.S. Congressional appropriations committees said on Friday that Republicans have abandoned bipartisan ...
Mount Vesuvius turned a man’s brain into glass when it erupted 2,000 years ago
Mount Vesuvius was so hot it turned a man’s brain into glass when it erupted, fascinating new research shows. A piece of dark ...
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Ancient Roman guard’s brain turned to glass after Vesuvius eruption
When volcanic disaster struck the Roman city of Herculaneum in 79 CE, a young man, believed to have been a guardian of a public building, met his demise in a flash of superheated ash. But his brain ...
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Vesuvius Eruption Turned This Roman Man’s Brain Into Glass 2,000 Years Ago and Scientists Just Figured Out How
A deadly ash cloud preserved the man's brain as glass for thousands of years.
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Human brain turned to glass by ash cloud from Vesuvius
Excavations have found that the brain of what seems to be a human male contained dark glass formed during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. The effect can't be explained by lava temperatures ...
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The Download: underage celebrity chatbots, and OpenAI’s latest model
What’s new: OpenAI has just released GPT-4.5, a new version of its flagship large language model which it claims is its ...
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Science and Space: A New Wave of Discoveries
Recent science news highlights include Blue Origin's all-female crew space mission, the unique case of a man's brain turning ...
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How Vesuvius turned this man’s brain to glass: Scientists unravel a 2,000-year-old mystery
A young man was lying in his bed when a viciously hot cloud of ash swept down from the erupting Mount Vesuvius and turned his ...
Mount Vesuvius eruption turned man’s brain into glass. Here’s how it happened
The disaster that obliterated two cities also created the intense heat and rapid cooling behind the one-of-a-kind ...