Volcano eruption turns man's brain to glass with explosive heatwave
Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79AD, covering nearby Pompeii and Herculaneum in ash which buried the towns and hundreds of its ...
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Vesuvius Eruption Turned This Roman Man’s Brain Into Glass 2,000 Years Ago and Scientists Just Figured Out How
In the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, a young man lay in bed as the world around him erupted into chaos. It was AD 79, and the ...
MIT Technology Review1h
An ancient man’s remains were hacked apart and kept in a garage
Why archaeologists are increasingly leaving historic sites untouched until we have less destructive technologies for studying ...
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Vesuvius Turned a Man’s Brain to Glass. Could Santorini Hold Similar Secrets?
Nearly two thousand years after Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, destroying the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, scientists ...
Never-before-seen series of ancient paintings dug up in Pompeii provide clues on rituals tied to Greek god
The extraordinary images that emerged from ash show Dionysian followers dancing and hunting, which are akin to frescoes of the nearby Villa of the Mysteries that were found 100 years ago.
‘Brain vitrification’: new research shows how the Vesuvius eruption turned a man’s brain to glass
A rare sequence of heating and cooling triggered the chain of chemical reactions that turn organic material into glass.
Preserved in Glass: How Mount Vesuvius Locked This Roman’s Brain in Time
Researchers found organic glass in the skull of a volcano victim, indicating the extreme and unique environment triggered by ...
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Ash Cloud From Mt. Vesuvius Turned One Victim's Brain to Glass
Intense heat generated by Mt. Vesuvius' eruption turned one victim's brain to glass. While gruesome, the finding published in ...
Changing landscape for farmers, how brain turns to glass, fastest-growing job: Catch up on the day’s stories
1️⃣ Changing landscape: From freezing funds to threatening tariffs and gutting humanitarian aid, grain growers and sellers ...
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Katy Perry Joins Historic All-Female Space Crew with Blue Origin
Pop star Katy Perry will join journalists Gayle King and Lauren Sanchez in a historic all-female space mission on Blue Origin ...
Smithsonian Magazine15h
See the Stunning Frescoes of a Mysterious Dionysian Cult Discovered in Ancient Pompeii
Created more than a century before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., the wall paintings provide rare insights into ...
Vesuvius Volcano Ash Cloud Cooked Roman Man's Brain Into Glass Fossil
A unique, dark-colored glass found inside the skull of a Roman killed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is his brain—cooked into a fossil by an ash cloud. This is the horrific revelation of an ...