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

Victims were preserved in sudden death, as was the case with the one whose brain was turned to glass. His body was first ...

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

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

In 79 AD, Italy's Mount Vesuvius erupted, utterly destroying the towns of Pompeii ... hot enough to kill people and raise the ...

In 79 AD, Italy's Mount Vesuvius erupted, utterly destroying the ... hot enough to kill people and raise the temperature of their bodies to above 500 or 600 degrees Celsius (between 930 and ...

Intense heat generated by Mt. Vesuvius' eruption turned one victim's brain to glass. While gruesome, the finding published in the journal Scientific Reports, lends insight into the chaotic events that ...

A rare sequence of heating and cooling triggered the chain of chemical reactions that turn organic material into glass.

They still can’t agree on the day Vesuvius blew its top ... heavy wool clothing found on bodies; wine in sealed jars, indicating that the grape harvest was over; and wood-burning braziers ...

For several years now, we've been following a tantalizing story indicating that the high heat of the ash cloud generated when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD was sufficiently hot to turn one of the ...

A cloud of super-heated volcanic ash and gas exploded the brain of one Herculaneum resident and the fragments inside his ...

In 79 AD, Italy's Mount Vesuvius erupted, utterly destroying the ... hot enough to kill people and raise the temperature of their bodies to above 500 or 600 degrees Celsius (between 930 and ...