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

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

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"The cool thing is we don't have to create a little human, or a cat or mouse in a dish," he said. "We can build out discreet systems of brain cells and use them for the purpose we want. They're ...

The discovery, reported in 2020, was exciting because a human brain had never been ... possibly after the brain had a chance to rapidly cool down. “The ash clouds can easily be 500 or 600 ...

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

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Photo: Pier Paolo Petrone Though human brain preservation is rare in ... “The ash cloud then dissipated and the brain could cool down quickly to ambient temperatures, transforming into glass.” ...

Forensic analysis of the obsidian-like chips revealed proteins common in brain tissue and fatty acids found in human hair ... and the liquid form must cool fast enough to avoid being crystallized ...

This is even more unlikely to happen to human tissues, because they are mostly made ... which topped out at around 465C. Then the brain needed to rapidly cool down -- and all this had to happen before ...