The eruption of Mount Vesuvius 2,000 years ago turned a victim’s brain tissue into glass. Scientists say they have figured out how this unusual phenomenon occurred.

Glass brain like ‘no other case in the world’ They say the victim’s brain was the apparent effect of a scorching ash cloud that descended across the Bay of Naples, and concluded that the ...

In other words, the lava lake has cooled so much that it appears to be as smooth as glass. The scientists ascertained this from data compiled by the Juno spacecraft, which made extremely close ...