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 ...

“Obsidian glass, that is a volcanic glass, forms when lava is very quickly cooled, for example, where it enters into water,” Giordano added. However, the pyroclastic flows, composed of fast ...

They look like small pieces of obsidian, smooth and shiny ... are thought to be pieces of his brain—turned to glass. The discovery, reported in 2020, was exciting because a human brain had ...

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

Along with volcanic ash, his brain and spinal cord ... The shards, or clasts, have a glassy luster, making them look a lot like obsidian, a glass formed from lava when it cools very quickly.

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 ...