Sure, the blast was hot, but modern measurement tools show that the pyroclastic flow from Mount Vesuvius did not reach the ... Volcanic ash does not cool so quickly. So, how did this victim’s brain ...

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

Others were buried in hot lava. But the victim with the glass brain was unlucky in a specific way. Scientists have earlier concluded that the “wall of death” cloud of ashes and gasses known as a ...

Michael Joseph Blassie; and victims of 9/11 ... it is essential to evacuate all people possibly in the way of pyroclastic flows, it is also essential to fit houses as shelters able to resist ...

Now, the scientists say they have worked out the sequence of events that likely killed the victim and led to the ... However, the pyroclastic flows, composed of fast-moving volcanic material ...

Pyroclastic flows are a dense collection of hot gas and ... rushed down the side of the volcano at 124mph (199kph), burying victims and remnants of everyday life. Hundreds of refugees ...

pumice and pyroclastic flows. But the disaster that demolished the two settlements also immortalized them, preserving everything from the shape of victims’ bodies to frescoes in private villas ...

The extreme and rapid nature of Mount Vesuvius' pyroclastic flows vitrified the brain tissue of the unfortunate Roman soldier thousands of years ago.

Sure, the blast was hot, but modern measurement tools show that the pyroclastic flow from Mount Vesuvius ... So, how did this victim’s brain get turned into something akin to a dropped Champagne ...