Glass rarely forms naturally from organic materials. However, in 2020, researchers discovered a black, glassy substance inside the skull of a person killed during the eruption of Italy’s Mount ...

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. Reading time 3 minutes Nearly 2,000 years ago ...

Mount Vesuvius, located 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) southeast of Naples, Italy, is the only active volcano on Europe’s mainland. It is a composite stratovolcano, made up of pyroclastic flows, lava flows ...

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 brain to glass almost 2,000 years ago. That is the theory Italian ...

Researchers examining the remains of a man whose brain supposedly turned into glass when he was killed nearly 2,000 years ago in the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius said they likely know what ...

There is no current danger to the population after a pyroclastic flow on Italy’s Mount Etna produced a huge plume of ash Monday, sending tourists running. The flow moved away from a group of tourists ...

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