The research uncovers the vitrification process, where intense heat from the eruption turned brain matter into glass, a ...

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

Researchers who examined the remains of a man whose brain was purported to have turned into glass when he was killed nearly 2 ...

The disaster that obliterated two cities also created the intense heat and rapid cooling behind the one-of-a-kind ...

Mount Vesuvius was so hot it turned a man’s brain into glass when it erupted, fascinating new research shows. A piece of dark ...

Scientists have confirmed a rare discovery in Herculaneum—a man's brain turned to glass during the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 A.D.

A deadly ash cloud preserved the man's brain as glass for thousands of years.

Nearly 2,000 years ago, a young man's brain in Herculaneum turned to glass during Mount Vesuvius' eruption, due to extreme ...

A young man was lying in his bed when a viciously hot cloud of ash swept down from the erupting Mount Vesuvius and turned his ...

Excavations have found that the brain of what seems to be a human male contained dark glass formed during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. The effect can't be explained by lava temperatures ...

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The research team used X-ray imaging and electron microscopy work out that the brain must have been heated to at least 510C ...