A brain transmuted into glass by the famous volcano should have been impossible. Some scientists say it still is.
A young man's brain turned into glass during Mount Vesuvius’ 79 AD eruption. Scientists now study how extreme heat preserved ...
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, ...
The center of the Earth is so hot that it could satisfy the entire world’s energy needs. But can scientists safely tap into ...
Under the lamp, I suddenly saw small glassy remains glittering in the volcanic ash that filled the skull," Petrone said.
Scientists have discovered the reason behind the transformation of a young man's brain to glass following the eruption of ...
Scientists have confirmed a rare discovery in Herculaneum—a man's brain turned to glass during the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 A.D.
When volcanic disaster struck the Roman city of Herculaneum in 79 CE, a young man, believed to have been a guardian of a ...
A deadly ash cloud preserved the man's brain as glass for thousands of years.
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 ...
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