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A young man’s brain turned to glass during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Scientists say they have figured out howThe young man’s skull and spine likely protected the brain from “complete thermal breakdown,” allowing fragments of the unique organic glass to form. Unlike pyroclastic flows, which hug the ground, an ...
A fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter, also called a pyroclastic flow, followed, burying the area. Experts ...
A brain transmuted into glass by the famous volcano should have been impossible. Some scientists say it still is.
A rare organic glass was found inside a skull from Herculaneum’s 79 CE Vesuvius eruption. Researchers determined that a super ...
A young man's brain turned into glass during Mount Vesuvius’ 79 AD eruption. Scientists now study how extreme heat preserved ...
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