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What destroyed the city of pompeii

Archaeologists are investigating the remains of Pompeii, a city frozen in time. On a fateful summer morning in A.D. 79, Mount VesuviusMount VesuviusAfter heavy ash caused fatal building collapses in Pompeii, violent pyroclastic currents rocketed downslope and smothered the city, the nearby port town of Herculaneum, and several other sites.… 

What Determines Fat Colour

New research is focusing on how bad “white” fat can be converted to good “brown” fat, which when activated, burns calories instead of storing them. Brown fat burns both fat and glucose to keep the body warm and gets its darker hue from relatively high levels of mitochondria, the cell’s…