before it rapidly cooled to ambient temperatures as the cloud dissipated. The bones of the individual's skull and spine likely protected the brain from complete thermal breakdown, allowing ...

That ash cloud, study authors speculated, made possible the conditions that could theoretically turn brain to glass through a process called vitrification. But at least three experts not ...

Scientists believe that a cloud of ash as hot as 510 degrees Celsius enveloped the brain and then cooled rapidly, turning it into glass, according to BBC News. Glass forms when a liquid ...

Archaeologists have revealed the brain of a man killed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago turned to ...

A man's brain was partly turned into glass after Mount ... in the first effects of the eruption as the burning hot ash cloud hit. The city was buried in the latter stages of the geological event.