he died here inside ancient herculaneum in italy when vesuvius violently erupted. of herculaneum, sister city of pompeii, is excavated. then in 2020, scientists were mystified when they found now, they have the answer. the material must have been very fast heated, in the skull of the brain. the temperature quickly dropped down back to room temperature ——lock. the scientists found these neural structures inside the glass, proving that it really was once a living organ. vesuvius's victims died suddenly and violently, but the unique remnants of one young man are helping georgina rannard, bbc news. you're watching news life from washington, dc, am fret?! hashingtgfii’gg. lam w humphrey, thanks fret?! hashingtgfii’gg. iavfi w humphrey, thanks as ever your ,:’i ”sz your 7 for your 5 for the for yourtompany. for the go to for yourtompehy. for the go to our website and latest, go to our website and at? top latest, go to our website and at;— top of latest, go to our website and at? top of the hour, latest, go to our website and at;— top of the hour, we at the top of the hour,

vesuvius violently erupted.n the background, | is excavated. then in 2020, scientists were mystified when they found fragments of glass inside one victim's skull. turn to hard glass? passing through, heating up the body, probably damaging once a living organ. vesuvius's victims died suddenly and violently, scientists understand the dangers of volcanoes today. georgina rannard, bbc news. thanks for your company, business today coming thanks for your company, bus next. 'oday coming: it's a quiet weather story to tell over the next few days, it's the 1st of march over the weekend, the first day falling below freezing. but elsewhere, it's going to be a chilly start, perhaps lows down to —5 in one or two spots. there will also be some fog, and we can draw a line really 9—10 celsius. pressure stays with us. the isobars are fairly widely spread — that means not much in the way of wind. this weather front will bring more of a breeze into the far it really will die off in situ. and northern ireland, and sunshine ahead of

and is vesuvius erected. and this is what techniques have allowed scientists to do.ght look like lumps of charcoal, but these the eruption of mount vesuvius. good to see you. here it is. it's being collected for a project that's been the secrets the scroll holds inside. the ancient scroll is brought here. heart of this machine. in minute detail. the scroll is rotated as it's scanned, creating a 3d digital reconstruction, but opening it needs more work. scroll in a computer. once that's segmented, then one is... sense of the text. so there is multiple steps. and after months of work, here's the result. and a hint at what's written on it. the finished product. there's more work to be done, but what they're seeing looks very promising. earlier efforts to read them. this scroll now gives us the chance, using a mix to the classical age. 2024 wildlife photographer of the year people's choice award. always my of year, always my of yea r, we always my of year, we start this year, this! we start with this photo. it shows a bloodied but determined honey badger pursuing a cape

vesuvius violently erupted. fragments of glass inside one victim's skull. turn to hard glass?probably damaging in the skull of the brain. inside the glass, proving that it really was georgina rannard, bbc news. before we go, turn to hard glass? now, they have the answer. the material must have been very fast heated, well above 510 degrees, by the ash cloud, rapidly passing through, heating up the body, probably damaging most of the other soft tissues but leaving these remnants in the skull of the brain. the temperature quickly dropped down back to room temperature and was able to lock the amorphous structure of the soft tissues into what is now glass. the scientists found these neural structures inside the glass, proving that it really was once a living organ. vesuvius's victims died suddenly and violently, but the unique remnants of one young man are helping down to —5 in one or two spots. down through the vale of york towards the south midlands, lunchtime, it will have lifted. developing, and that breeze may be just driving in a few 9—10 celsius. into the start of the weeken

it feels like it's just floating... the eruption of mount vesuvius. in a specially—made cradle.icole. here it is. for the first time in decades. inside, into here. revealing the secrets the scroll holds inside. very fragile, so if you try to take them apart or if you try to open them, they fall apart into pieces. of course, physically, the scroll is staying of unrolling the scroll. 2,000 years ago. it needs the most cutting edge technology. this is diamond light source in oxfordshire, a huge heart of this machine. in this metal pipe, electrons — charged particles — are whizzed around and around. digital reconstruction. three—dimensional image has been formed, there's two big steps. other step as well, where ai and machine learning are part of making sense of the text. to go right in a row. to be able to make sense of what we're looking at. and after months of work, here's the result. and a hint at what's written on it. some greek letters are clearly visible. but it's not the finished product. scroll we've ever scanned. by all appearances today, this will be the first scroll from

they might look like lumps of charcoal, but these the eruption of mount vesuvius.le. hi, nicole. hi, stephen. here it is. it's being collected, ready to leave for the library inside, into here. revealing the secrets the scroll holds inside. i'm very excited to see the inside of the scroll. of unrolling the scroll. 2000 years ago. it needs the most cutting edge technology. this is diamond light source in oxfordshire, a huge particle accelerator, called a synchrotron. we've come inside to take a closer look at the in this metal pipe, electrons — charged particles — are whizzed around and around. in minute detail. digital reconstruction. once the data has been collected and the there's two big steps. the first one is unrolling digitally that scroll in a computer. once that's cemented, then the reading is a whole so there is multiple steps. like all of science, you need lots of things to go right in a row. after 2,000 years, the first look at the unfurled scroll, but it's not the finished product. there's more work to be done. this might be the be the most exciting her

the 2000-year-old scrolls were charged by the eruption of mount vesuvius in 79 a.d.en too fragile to open. a combination of x-ray imaging and ai is virtually unrolling them, revealing rows of columns and texts. more work needs to be done to make them flee legible but the team says early results look promising. you can always find more on the day's news on our website, bbc.com/news. check us out on your favorite social media site. i am in washington, d.c. thank you for announcer: funding for presentation of this program is provided by... announcer: funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation. and by judy and peter blum kovler foundation, pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. ♪ ♪ announcer: "usa today" calls it, "arguably the best bargain in streaming." that's because the free pbs app lets you watch the best of pbs anytime, anywhere. ♪ >> good evening. geoff bennett is away. on the news hour tonight. middle east nations reject president trump's idea to remove palestinians from gaza and take ownership of the decimated re

mount vesuvius began to erupt within 48 hours.ey were lucky, residents of the city of pompeii managed to flee. the rest were dead. for centuries afterwards. pompeii was largely forgotten until the middle of the 1700s, when digging began in earnest. >> minerals coming. >> through. humidity for gabriel zoe sottile, director of the pompeii archeological park. the work here never ends. >> because the site is so vast and it's, you know, 30, 13,000 rooms excavated in two and a half centuries. >> there are still new discoveries. the latest, this lavish complex of baths, including a caldarium or hot room, a tepidarium, a warm room and a frigidarium, a room with a pool of cold water and a banquet hall. archeologists presume the owner was a wealthy businessman turned politician, busy wining and dining, winning friends and influencing people. sound familiar? >> i think it's a bit like a mar-a-lago, right? it's not really a public place, but at some points people would invite stakeholders and potential supporters and friends. >> this roman ma

to decipher ancient scrolls charred by italy's mount vesuvius in 79 a.d.dreds of papyrus were found in the 1850s in the remains of a villa buried in ash during the eruption. they were too charred and fragile to be unrolled. researchers made a historic breakthrough by using a hi-tech scan using x-ray images, and a.i. was able to enhance the clarity of the text inside the scrolls. >>> coming up nfl shocker. a buffalo bill quarterback squeaks out a win in the race for mvp. for mvp. ...a medication like humira or remicade? put them in check with rinvoq, a once-daily pill. when symptoms tried to take control, i got rapid relief with rinvoq. check. when flares tried to slow me down,... ...i got lasting remission with rinvoq. check. and many were in remission... ...even at nearly 2 years. and rinvoq... ...helped visibly reduce damage of the intestinal lining. check. rapid symptom relief. lasting remission. and visibly reduced damage. check. rinvoq can lower ability to fight infections. before treatment, test for tb and do bloodwork. serious infections, blood clot

have you been able to establish how long the painting existed before the eruption of vesuvius? it is a really prestigious fresco—torhavein your house. have so few examples. room with this scene of the initiation rites so we have lots of comparison with this one other place. because we have these frontesses, women, who as now and eat raw meat, and we don't have this in the villa of the mysteries. opened up new questions and provides more evidence for the very mysterious cult of bacchus. we only have about a0 seconds left but can you tell us briefly how you found this and do you think there are more treasures to be found? we are out of time. business is next and i will be back in 15 minutes with the headline stories. we're waiting of stories. we're still waiting of pictures from donald trumpfirst cabinet. hello there. eastwards across the uk, so some grey skies. and some showers coming into some western parts of the uk. there's the shower clouds coming in behind this that's all moving its way eastwards. but because there's more cloud around and some wet weather so particularly wh

plus, we take you to kew gardens for this year's orchid festival. when mount vesuvius erupted. what is there it is. accelerator called a synchrotron. we've come inside to take a closer look at the heart of this machine. in this metal pipe, electrons, charged particles are whizzed around and around. digital reconstruction, but opening it needs more work. there's two big steps. the first one is unrolling digitally that scroll in a computer. at what's written on it. some greek letters are clearly visible, but it's not hundreds of scrolls were recovered from the roman town of herculaneum, this scroll now gives us the chance, using a mix of computing and decipher every word, providing a direct link to the classical age. rebecca morelle, bbc news. once that's segmented, then one is... the reading is a whole other step, as well, where aland machine learning are part of making sense of the text. so there is multiple steps. and after months of work, here's the result. after 2,000 years, the first look at the unfurled scroll and a hint at what's written on it. some greek letters are clearly visi

the document was badly burned by the volcanic eruption of mount vesuvius in 79ad, and is too fragileu try to take them apart or if you try to open them, they fall apart into pieces. of unrolling the scroll. we're also excited to know what was written 2000 years ago. the ancient scroll is brought here. it needs the most cutting edge technology. beam that can probe the scroll in minute detail. the scroll is rotated as it's scanned, creating a 3d the first one is unrolling digitally that scroll in a computer. that's this tricky, tricky step. part of making sense of the text. like all of science, you need lots of things to go right in a row. after 2000 years, what's written on it. somesre’ejtietters are clearly. . . . . by all appearances today, this will be the first scroll that's the way it looks like we're headed. hundreds of scrolls were recovered from the roman town of herculaneum, but many have been destroyed in earlier efforts to read them. creating a direct link with the past. packed inside this small scroll are ten metres and human ingenuity, to reveal every letter and decipher

they were called "the real housewives of vesuvius."val to alert you if you're dying. okay. great. good for them. i do wanna point out there's something else that can tell you you are dying. your body. it tells you by being dead. meanwhile, experts say a 27-year-old llama was certified as the oldest in the world. and because even experts aren't sure, they also certified it as the world's oldest alpaca. [laughter] hey, buddy. meanwhile, in cosmic news, a rare parade of all 7 planets will move across the night sky this week. and like all parades, it will be hosted by al roker. al roker. al roker. meanwhile, a bride completely shocked the groom in the middle of their wedding ceremony with an escape room challenge, by pulling out wedding rings that were fastened by a combination padlock, and then helpers suddenly stood up from the audience in costume. that is a hell of a thing to spring on your soon-to-be husband at the altar. "do you, richard, want to know where kathy hid the magnet to pull the key out of the tube to open the box containin

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the first lettuce prize on behalf of the vesuvius challenge. >> thank you. >> luke farritor was the firstn to decipher a word from an ancient scroll that had been buried in volcanic mud for centuries. >> but for the kind of the first part of the challenge. through july, i was interning at spacex and just kind of doing this in the evenings and weekends. it's the word for us. >> he went on to win the grand prize in a global competition. a 22 year old undergrad at the time. >> my friends were there and i was cheering, jumping up and down, you know, screaming, crying, all the stuff i run most of the things from my laptop. it's just a normal macbook, don't worry. but then i've just got like five surplus computers in here. um, this is what i do. most of my work from. >> what he does now is work for doge, the department of government efficiency, headed up by elon musk, who's brought in a group of gifted young engineers, some in their early 20s with no prior government experience. their current job assignments unclear, but it is clear they're part of the trump administration's plan to slash gover

behalf of the vesuvius challenge. >> indeed. >> thank you. >> luke farritor was the first person to decipher a word from an ancient scroll that had been buried in volcanic mud for centuries. >> but for the kind of the first. >> part of the. >> challenge. >> through july, i was interning at spacex and just kind of doing this in the evenings and weekends. >> it's the word for us. >> he went on to win the grand prize in a global competition. a 22 year old undergrad at the time. >> my friends were there and i was cheering, jumping up and down, you know, screaming, crying, all the stuff i run, most of the things from my laptop. it's just a normal macbook, don't worry. but then i've just got like five surplus computers in here. um, this is what i do. most of my work from. >> what he does now is work for doge, the department of government efficiency, headed up by elon musk. who's brought in a group of gifted young engineers, some in their early 20s, with no prior government experience. their current job assignments unclear, but it is clear they're part of the trump administration's plan to slash go

. >> of the vesuvius challenge. thank you. >> luke farritor was the first person to. decipher a word from an. ancient scroll that had been buried in volcanic mud for centuries. >> but for the first part of the challenge, through july, i was interning at spacex and just kind of doing this in the evenings and weekends. it's the word for us. >> he went. >> on to win. >> the grand prize in a global competition. a 22 year old undergrad at the time. >> my friends were there and i was cheering, jumping up and down, you know, screaming, crying, all the stuff i run, most of the things from my laptop. it's just a normal macbook, don't worry. but then i've just got like five surplus computers in here. um, this is what i do. most of my work from. >> what he does now. >> is work. >> for doge. >> the department of government efficiency, headed up by elon musk, who's brought in a group of gifted young engineers, some in their early. >> 20s. >> with no prior government experience. their current job assignments. >> are unclear. >> but it is clear. >> they're part of the. >> trump admi