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

The Alaska Volcano Observatory said signs indicated a Mount Spurr eruption was likely, though not certain, in the weeks or ...

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

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 ...

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Guatemala's Volcano of Fire has begun erupting, and authorities have evacuated nearly 300 families while warning that another ...

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

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

Guatemala's Volcano of Fire is erupting, and authorities have evacuated nearly 300 families while warning that another 30,000 ...

Guatemala’s Volcano of Fire is erupting, and authorities have evacuated nearly 300 families while warning that another 30,000 ...

A glass -like substance found in the skull of a person who perished in the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius has helped archaeologists unravel the sequence of events that wiped out Pompeii and ...