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Vesuvius Eruption Turned This Roman Man's Brain Into Glass

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Scientists Stunned After Finding Mount Vesuvius Eruption in 79 AD Turned a Man's Brain Into Glass

Scientists Stunned After Finding Mount Vesuvius Eruption in 79 AD Turned a Man's Brain Into Glass Every discovery in the margin of history held significance that defined both the past and the present.

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Vesuvius Turned One Victim’s Brain to Glass

Heat from the eruption in A.D. 79 was so intense that it vitrified the brain tissue of one unfortunate Herculaneum resident, a new study confirms.

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 Vesuvius's eruption in 79 CE.

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Vesuvius Erupted, but When Exactly?

Two thousand years on, scholars still don’t agree on the day the destruction of Pompeii began. Two new studies only fan the ...

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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Doomed Pompeii's secrets revealed in discovery of giant fresco of Roman god of wine

In the shadow of Mt Vesuvius, Pompeii's buried wonders are still emerging. A newly found fresco offers a tantalising glimpse ...

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Sharpe: From the volcano’s edge

I climbed a volcano. Italy s Mount Vesuvius is best known for destroying the city of Pompeii when it erupted in 79 AD.

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