A Vesuvius Victim’s Brain Turned into Glass, and Scientists Think They Know How
The Herculaneum resident, killed by the volcanic eruption in 79 CE, presents the only known vitrified brain on Earth. Now, ...
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What Earth would look like if Yellowstone's supervolcano erupted
These pyroclastic flows, or pyroclastic density currents ... Cities across the US would be smothered in ash For parts of ...
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 ...
‘Absolutely mind-blowing’: Human brain turned to glass by volcanic eruption
Parts of a human brain solidified into black glass when the eruption of Mount Vesuvius blasted a young man’s bedroom with a ...
Terrifying consequences the entire world would face if Yellowstone supervolcano erupted now
Perhaps the main wide-reaching effect of a major Yellowstone eruption would be the change in weather. As it would inject ...
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How did this man's brain turn to glass? Scientists have a theory
That is hotter than the pyroclastic flow that buried the city ... The "only possible scenario" was that an ash cloud emitted by Vesuvius delivered an initial hot blast before quickly dissipating, the ...
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Kagoshima blast 30,000 years ago dumped ash in Tokyo
The pyroclastic flow and volcanic ash spewed out by the Aira caldera in southern Kagoshima Prefecture in Kyushu was 1.5 times larger than previous research estimates and reached a depth of about ...
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A Vesuvius Victim’s Brain Turned into Glass, and Scientists Think They Know How
The 2020 discovery baffled scientists. Sure, the blast was hot, but modern measurement tools show that the pyroclastic flow from Mount Vesuvius did not reach the threshold of 510°C (910°F ...