The off-the-shoulder dress was embellished with over 16,000 glass droplets and Rosemont crystals—affixed by hand by 12 skilled artisans. Adding a touch of color to the dress, the Ralph Lauren ...

Excavations have found that the brain of what seems to be a human male contained dark glass formed during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. The effect can't be explained by lava ...

But in nearby Herculaneum, also buried in the eruption, the preserved skeleton of a young man lying in bed contained a surprising find: glass remnants of his brain. Glass forms when a liquid — u ...

Nearly 2,000 years after a young man died in the Vesuvius volcanic eruption, scientists have discovered that his brain was preserved when it turned to glass in an extremely hot cloud of ash.

A tiny cube of transparent glass holds these 3D designs that are revealed when exposed to specific lasers. Credit: Adapted from ACS Energy Letters 2025, DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.5c00024 Researchers ...