The best way to clean your oven doesn't involve harsh chemicals. A pumice stone, whether in the form of a scouring stick or ...

A rare sequence of heating and cooling triggered the chain of chemical reactions that turn organic material into glass.

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

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE presented its surrounding ancient Roman communities with a number of terrifying ways ...

The remains of a young man, found in his bed in the destroyed town of Herculaneum, included glassy fragments that ... under deadly layers of volcanic ash, pumice and pyroclastic flows.

The easiest, best way to clean an oven is to use a pumice stone. The pumice stone lifts even the most stubborn stains with ...

Heat from the eruption in A.D. 79 was so intense that it vitrified the brain tissue of one unfortunate Herculaneum resident, a new study confirms. By Franz Lidz Five years ago Italian researchers ...

It remains a matter of debate in the archeological community, but a fresh analysis of the physical properties of the glass-like material ... spewing molten rock, pumice, and hot ash over the ...

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Fragment of glassy black material extracted from the ... left in open air to be slowly buried in low-temperature ash and pumice deposits across the city, allowing the man’s liquified brain ...