However, in 2020, researchers discovered a black, glassy substance inside the skull of a person killed during the eruption ... created the conditions necessary for the vitrification of human brain ...

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

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

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...

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 ...

the physical principles that turn brain to glass are not different from those that create glass anywhere else. The quenching that occurred inside the skull of a single human victim of Vesuvius may ...

Researchers have unearthed a piece of dark-coloured organic glass which was found inside the skull ... bones of the individual's skull and spine likely protected the brain from complete thermal ...

Concepts encoded by concept neurons can be an animal, an article of clothing, a place, or a person. The concept can be evoked ...

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.

Regarded as the first and only known organic glass sample to contain human brain matter, the shiny black material was recovered from inside the skull of an approximately 20-year-old man from ...