The skull evolved for protection against blunt force. Modern acceleration and rotational forces expose the brain to new ...

Researchers found organic glass in the skull of a volcano victim, indicating the extreme and unique environment triggered by Vesuvius's eruption in 79 CE.

Archaeologists and volcanologists have proven that the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius turned a young man's brain into glass.

However, in 2020, researchers discovered a black, glassy substance inside the skull of a person killed ... necessary for the vitrification of human brain tissue to occur, the study concluded.

A fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter, also called a pyroclastic flow, followed, burying the area. Experts believe the ash cloud turned the man's brain into glass because the ...

"Our comprehensive chemical and physical characterization of the material sampled from the skull of a human body buried at Herculaneum... shows compelling evidence that these are human brain ...

Transforming the brain tissue to glass would have required an extremely hot and fast-moving ash cloud, lab experiments suggest.

A bow hunter discovered the skull on Oct 8, 2020, near Forest Service roads 300 and 315 in the Rampart Range area.

A cascade of changes from dinosaurs to birds When the team analyzed data from the 3D models, they saw that as brain and skull sizes increased in non-avian theropod dinosaurs, muscles shifted into ...

But a set of small black fragments found inside the skull of a man who died in the ... The discovery, reported in 2020, was exciting because a human brain had never been found in this state.