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 ...

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

However, in 2020, researchers discovered a black, glassy substance inside the skull of a person killed ... necessary for the vitrification of human brain tissue to occur, the study concluded.

A bow hunter discovered the skull on Oct 8, 2020, near Forest Service roads 300 and 315 in the Rampart Range area.

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

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 ...

Archaeologists have previously discovered human brains preserved in a ... This caused his brain to turn into glass during the ...

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.