THE CASE IN BRIEF
A victim of Mount Vesuvius’s AD 79 eruption left behind something researchers had never documented before: vitrified human brain tissue. A 2025 study suggests an extremely hot, short-lived ash cloud heated the tissue above 510°C before rapid cooling preserved it as organic glass.
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