The skull evolved for protection against blunt force. Modern acceleration and rotational forces expose the brain to new injury risks. We must rethink brain protection strategies.
A young man's brain turned into glass during Mount Vesuvius’ 79 AD eruption. Scientists now study how extreme heat preserved ...
About 1950 years later, archaeologists uncovered the remains of one resident whose brain had turned into organic glass in his skull, preserving the organ’s microstructures. The 2020 discovery baffled ...
The issue of blast exposure among service members, like U.S. Army Reservist Robert Card, is coming under renewed scrutiny ...
Blast overpressure occurs when a weapon is fired and the explosion creates an invisible high-pressure shock wave that travels through the body — including the brain. Scientists have now found ...
If you grew up in the '80s, you were probably weaned on Tetris and were thrilled when the modern-day equivalent, Block Blast, ...
that detailed how one victim of the blast, a male presumed to be in his ... explosion was so immense that it had fused the victim’s brain tissue into glass. Forensic analysis of the obsidian ...