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

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

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

A fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter, also called a pyroclastic flow, followed, burying the area. Experts ...

Archaeologists and volcanologists have proven that the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius turned a young man's brain into glass.

However, in no other case in the world have vitrified organic human or animal remains ever ... as was the case with the one ...

But a set of small black fragments found inside the skull of a man who died in the ... The discovery, reported in 2020, was exciting because a human brain had never been found in this state.

However, in 2020, researchers discovered a black, glassy substance inside the skull of a person killed during the eruption ... created the conditions necessary for the vitrification of human brain ...

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

Shortly after Musk co-founded Neuralink — the company that’s put chips in three human brains, and counting — in 2016, Meta (then Facebook) also ventured into neurotechnology research, announcing plans ...

the physical principles that turn brain to glass are not different from those that create glass anywhere else. The quenching that occurred inside the skull of a single human victim of Vesuvius may ...

A rare form of dark-colored organic glass, discovered inside the skull of a victim from the 79 CE Mount Vesuvius eruption, likely formed when an intense but short-lived ash cloud superheated the ...