A young man's brain turned into glass during Mount Vesuvius’ 79 AD eruption. Scientists now study how extreme heat preserved ...

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In the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, a young man lay in bed as the world around him erupted into chaos. It was AD 79, and the ...

However, the pyroclastic flows, composed of fast-moving volcanic material and toxic gas, that charged out of Vesuvius and ...

Researchers who examined the remains of a man whose brain was purported to have turned into glass when he was killed nearly 2 ...

A brain transmuted into glass by the famous volcano should have been impossible. Some scientists say it still is.

To make glass from soft tissue the sequence of events must be exactly right. This is how experts think it went down ...

Scientists found glass fragments inside the skull of a young man who died in Herculaneum when Mt. Vesuvius exploded in 79 CE.

Heat from the eruption in A.D. 79 was so intense that it vitrified the brain tissue of one unfortunate Herculaneum resident, ...

Researchers found organic glass in the skull of a volcano victim, indicating the extreme and unique environment triggered by ...

A fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter, also called a pyroclastic flow, followed, burying the area. Experts ...