The skull evolved for protection against blunt force. Modern acceleration and rotational forces expose the brain to new ...

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

Researchers found organic glass in the skull of a volcano victim, indicating the extreme and unique environment triggered by ...

Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore return to Earth after 286 days in space, facing health challenges due to microgravity.

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 ...

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.

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

For several years now, we've been following a tantalizing story indicating that the high heat of the ash cloud generated when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD was sufficiently hot to turn one of the ...

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