When an ancient Roman resident of the coastal city Herculaneum was struck down by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, what ...

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

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 ...

Regarded as the first and only known organic glass sample to contain human brain matter, the shiny black material was recovered from inside the skull of an approximately 20-year-old man from ...

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

In 2018, one researcher discovered black, glossy shards embedded inside the caretaker’s skull ... proteins common in brain tissue and fatty acids found in human hair, while a chunk of charred ...

Opens in a new tab or window Dark organic glass found inside a skull appeared to be the fossilized brain of a male human who died during the 79 CE Mount Vesuvius eruption. The glass likely formed ...

Robotic surgical tools (around 8 millimetres in diameter) have been used for decades in keyhole surgery for other parts of the body. The challenge has been making a tool small enough (3mm in diameter) ...

However, since the primary challenge lies in the movement of the human brain inside the skull, solutions must go beyond traditional protective barriers. Research into improved diagnostic tools ...

Italian researchers published a study on the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the year 79 that detailed how one victim of the ...