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

Crystals have long been used to ward off negative energy and promote security. Black Tourmaline, Amethyst, Selenite, Black ...

A young man's brain turned into glass during Mount Vesuvius’ 79 AD eruption. Scientists now study how extreme heat preserved ...

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 ...

Heat from the eruption in A.D. 79 was so intense that it vitrified the brain tissue of one unfortunate Herculaneum resident, ...

North Milford Valley, in western Utah, is home to dormant volcanoes, subterranean lava deposits, and smatterings of obsidian—black volcanic glass—that Paiute peoples once collected for ...

While documenting the skeleton, Petrone noticed tiny, shiny fragments within the skull. Upon closer inspection, they appeared similar to obsidian, a volcanic glass formed by rapidly cooling lava.

creating what scientists call a glass transition. While this process is common with certain materials like silicates (the stuff of volcanic obsidian), organic tissues like brains are primarily ...

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 ...