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“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.” —Leonardo da Vinci LOS ANGELES — As he raced against cancer to finish his fourth and final book, Leonardo’s Brain, author/inventor/surgeon Leonard ...

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 brain to glass almost 2,000 years ago. That is the theory Italian ...

A man from the world’s largest known Alzheimer’s family should have lost his memory by his late 40s. Every other carrier of ...

Fragments from the brain of a man killed by the Mount Vesuvius eruption in the year 79 are smooth and shiny but still contain visible neurons. They look like small pieces of obsidian, smooth and shiny ...

Archaeologists have previously discovered human brains preserved in a variety of ways, including drying, freezing and tanning. Some preserved brains even resemble soap. But now they've found something ...

Fragment of glassy black material extracted from the cranial cavity of a victim of the volcanic eruption at Herculaneum (image via New England Journal of Medicine, all courtesy Pier Paolo Petrone) A ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. old photo of man with text How do you live in a world that makes no sense at all? How do you exist when every second of your life ...

The bizarre yet true story behind the theft of brain of the world's most famous scientist. The bizarre yet true story of the Princeton Hospital pathologist who in 1955 stole Albert Einstein's brain ...