Learn how one victim of the A.D. 79 Mt. Vesuvius eruption experienced a singular set of tragic circumstances.

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

Mount Vesuvius was so hot it turned a man’s brain into glass when it erupted, fascinating new research shows. A piece of dark ...

A man, thought to be the custodian of a religious group, was believed to be in his bed asleep, when a super-hot ash cloud hit ...

Scientists made the surprise discovery while examining the body of a man who was killed in the ancient city of Herculaneum ...

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

It was a surprising discovery when scientists examining the remains of a man who died in bed in the ancient city of ...

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 ...

A deadly ash cloud preserved the man's brain as glass for thousands of years.

Top Democrats on the U.S. Congressional appropriations committees said on Friday that Republicans have abandoned bipartisan ...

The research team used X-ray imaging and electron microscopy work out that the brain must have been heated to at least 510C ...