The volcanic eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD that buried the Italian city of Pompeii, with its inhabitants suffering a deadly fate, is a piece of history etched into the minds of many. A seemingly ...

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

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 volcano had unleashed its fury, burying the Roman towns of Pompeii and ...

Under the lamp, I suddenly saw small glassy remains glittering in the volcanic ash that filled the skull," Petrone said.

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

Scientists have discovered the reason behind the transformation of a young man's brain to glass following the eruption of ...

However, in 2020, researchers discovered a black, glassy substance inside the skull ... of the study published Thursday in ...

They look like small pieces of obsidian ... remains glittering in the volcanic ash that filled the skull,” he tells MIT Technology Review via email. “It had a black appearance and shiny ...

A man, thought to be the custodian of a religious group, was believed to be in his bed asleep, when a super-hot ash cloud hit ...

North Milford Valley, in western Utah, is home to dormant volcanoes, subterranean lava deposits, and smatterings of obsidian—black volcanic glass—that Paiute peoples once collected for ...

However, in 2020, researchers discovered a black, glassy substance inside ... in the journal Scientific Reports. “Obsidian glass, that is a volcanic glass, forms when lava is very quickly ...