This may have turned his brain into glass. Italian scientists have put forward this theory to explain the strange case of this ancient Roman’s brain. They have said this is the only known case ...

For the brain to become glass, it must have been heated to above 510°C before quickly cooling. This is an incredibly rare process is called vitrification. The Romans' affinity for brothels ...

A young man was lying in bed when a viciously hot cloud of ash swept down from the erupting Mount Vesuvius and turned his brain to glass almost 2,000 years ago. That is the theory put forward by ...