Mississippi family says they heard no freight train before a tornado destroyed their home while they were in it.

A rare sequence of heating and cooling triggered the chain of chemical reactions that turn organic material into glass.

A brain transmuted into glass by the famous volcano should have been impossible. Some scientists say it still is.

Power said sheet rock fell on her and said that probably protected her from flying glass, but she doesn't remember ... Mickey found himself buried under sheet rock and other debris.

A young man killed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE was likely overcome by a fast-moving cloud of gas at a temperature of more than 500°C in a process that transformed fragments of his brain ...