However, the pyroclastic flows, composed of fast-moving volcanic material and toxic gas, that charged out of Vesuvius and buried Herculaneum could not have caused the brain tissues of this young man ...

The individual was identified as a young man believed to have been the ... revealed the presence of proteins and fatty acids common in human brain tissues, with the entire central nervous system ...

But now they've found something new: a brain that turned into glass. In a paper published Thursday in the journal Scientific ...

A young man's brain turned into glass during Mount Vesuvius’ 79 AD eruption. Scientists now study how extreme heat preserved ...

Researchers at UC San Francisco have enabled a man who is paralyzed to control a robotic arm through a device that relays ...

Fragments from the brain of a man killed by the Mount Vesuvius eruption in the year 79 are smooth and shiny but still contain visible neurons. They look like small pieces of obsidian, smooth and ...

But after doing extensive testing on the black material, they were able to conclusively prove it was indeed vitrified tissue – the man's brain and parts of his spinal cord had turned into glass.

The 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 ...