The skull evolved for protection against blunt force. Modern acceleration and rotational forces expose the brain to new ...

Often compared to a computer, the body's most complex organ operates using a code of electrical and chemical signals. These signals transmit through wires, nodes and networks to process and store ...

Concepts encoded by concept neurons can be an animal, an article of clothing, a place, or a person. The concept can be evoked ...

discovered inside the skull of a victim from the 79 CE Mount Vesuvius eruption, likely formed when an intense but short-lived ash cloud superheated the individual’s brain before it rapidly cooled.

A close-up of a single fragment of vitrified human brain found inside the skull of one of Mount Vesuvius's victims. Photograph Courtesy Pier Paolo Petrone An image from a Scanning Electron ...

Researchers have unearthed a piece of dark-coloured organic glass which was found inside the skull ... bones of the individual's skull and spine likely protected the brain from complete thermal ...

the physical principles that turn brain to glass are not different from those that create glass anywhere else. The quenching that occurred inside the skull of a single human victim of Vesuvius may ...

A fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter, also called a pyroclastic flow, followed, burying the area. Experts believe the ash cloud turned the man's brain into glass because the ...

Why archaeologists are increasingly leaving historic sites untouched until we have less destructive technologies for studying them.