In A.D. 79 a man's brain turned into glass, and researchers now might have an explanation as to how it happened ...

Nearly 2,000 years ago, a young man's brain in Herculaneum turned to glass during Mount Vesuvius' eruption, due to extreme ...

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

A young man was lying in his bed when a viciously hot cloud of ash swept down from the erupting Mount Vesuvius and turned his ...

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

Shard found inside a skull at Herculaneum was created as a result of a superheated cloud coming from the volcano, scientists ...

A young man was lying in his bed when a viciously hot cloud of ash swept down from the erupting Mount Vesuvius and turned his ...

In A.D. 79, a man who died in Mount Vesuvius' eruption near Pompeii had a rare transformation: His brain seemingly turned ...

The famous eruption of Mount Vesuvius that wiped out Pompeii and Herculaneum created a super-heated ash cloud that turned one ...

For several years now, we've been following a tantalizing story indicating that the high heat of the ash cloud generated when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD was sufficiently hot to turn one of the ...

These explosive events create fractured and brecciated rock zones that serve as conduits for mineralizing fluids, making diatremes prime targets for gold deposition. Surge Deposits are a geological ...

Diatreme-Hosted Gold Deposits: Gold mineralization within deep-seated diatreme structures, with historical drilling returned ...