A unique dark-colored organic glass, found inside the skull of an individual who died in Herculaneum during the 79 CE Mount ...

The famous eruption of Mount Vesuvius that wiped out Pompeii and Herculaneum created a super-heated ash cloud that turned one unlucky man's brain to glass, a new study suggests.

A young man killed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE was likely overcome by a fast-moving cloud of gas at a ...

The research team used X-ray imaging and electron microscopy work out that the brain must have been heated to at least 510C before cooling rapidly. The pyroclastic flow is believed to have reached ...

Recovered from the coastal town of Herculaneum, which along with Pompeii was wiped out by the eruption, the remains belonged to an individual ... Instead, based on observations of more recent ...

He is thought to have been the college's custodian and was killed in his bed, around midnight when he was assumed to be asleep, in the first effects of the eruption as the burning hot ash cloud hit.

A rare form of dark-colored organic glass formed when an intense ash cloud superheated the individual’s brain before it ...

Recovered from the coastal town of Herculaneum, which along with Pompeii was wiped out by the eruption ... an extremely hot ash cloud that dissipated quickly could have created the conditions ...

He is thought to have been the college's custodian and was killed in his bed, around midnight when he was assumed to be asleep, in the first effects of the eruption as the burning hot ash cloud hit.

A rare sequence of heating and cooling triggered the chain of chemical reactions that turn organic material into glass.

said the eruption lasted for four minutes, with the crater emitting a 900-meter high ash cloud that dissipated while moving in a westerly direction. The eruption was captured by PHIVOLCS IP cameras in ...