Glass rarely forms naturally from organic materials. However, in 2020, researchers discovered a black, glassy substance inside the skull of a person killed during the eruption of Italy’s Mount ...

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

A rare organic glass was found inside a skull from Herculaneum’s 79 CE Vesuvius eruption. Researchers determined that a super ...

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

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

Pompeii volcanic eruption was so hot it turned brain to glass - Fiery ash cloud that dissipated quickly was likely first deadly event during Mount Vesuvius eruption ...

A fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter, also called a pyroclastic flow, followed, burying the area. Experts believe the ash cloud turned the man's brain into glass because the ...

A cloud of super-heated volcanic ash and gas exploded the brain of one Herculaneum resident and the fragments inside his skull became an extremely rare organic glass ...

archaeologists and volcanologists show that the shards of black glass found in the skull of a young man who died when Mount ...

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 ...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE presented its surrounding ancient Roman communities with a number of terrifying ways ...

In a paper published Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports, archaeologists and volcanologists show that the shards of black glass found in the skull of a young man who died when Mount ...