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

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

Yes, technically, black is the absence of color. But it offers many of life’s beautifully brooding shades — from glassy, ...

This unprecedented finding has left scientists astounded, rewriting the known boundaries of human tissue preservation and volcanic fury. The vitrified brain — a scientific term for tissue transformed ...

“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 ...

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A rare dark coloured ‘organic ... cloud which was part of the volcanic ejection. A team led by Dr. Guido Giordano, Professor of Volcanology within the Department of Science at the Roma Tre University ...

A glass-like substance found in the skull of a person who perished in the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius has helped archaeologists unravel the sequence of events that wiped out Pompeii and ...

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 ...