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

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

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It’s certainly an exciting new addition to the chronicles of ancient ... a glass transition. While this process is common with certain materials like silicates (the stuff of volcanic obsidian ...

The extreme conditions produced by the volcano Mount Vesuvius, which erupted in 79 AD, caused a man's brain to turn to glass ... a common occurrence with big volcanic eruptions.

The brain, transformed into glass-like fragments due to extreme ... Even as the world marvels at this ancient enigma, one question lingers: how many other secrets are still buried beneath the volcanic ...

Led by scientists from Università Roma Tre, the study documents the first and only case of human organic tissue naturally vitrifying into a glass-like state. It’s certainly an exciting new addition to ...

“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 ...

“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-moving ...

A rare dark coloured ‘organic glass’, which was found inside the skull of an individual ... killed by a very hot – but short-lived – ash cloud which was part of the volcanic ejection. A team led by Dr ...

A rare form of dark-colored organic glass, discovered inside the skull ... lethal events due to the eruption of Vesuvius. Modern volcanic eruption studies suggest that this initial surge of ...