A groundbreaking study has found one of the highest concentrations of deep-sea litter ever found at the Mediterranean Sea’s deepest point. Researchers discovered ­plastic, glass, metal and paper on ...

So farewell then to the Yard Theatre. After 14 years of creative endeavour, this ramshackle, atmospheric, former warehouse in ...

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

A young man's brain turned into glass during Mount Vesuvius’ 79 AD eruption. Scientists now study how extreme heat preserved ...

Hundreds of 'Rock Crystals' Found From a 6000-Yr-Old Site Indicate Quartz Fragments Were Used to Decorate Graves The burial ...

Humans have been chemically modifying their world for far longer than you might think. Long before they had the slightest idea of what was happening chemically, they were turning clay into bricks, ...

A rare organic glass was found inside a skull from Herculaneum’s 79 CE Vesuvius eruption. Researchers determined that a super ...

To make glass from soft tissue the sequence of events must be exactly right. This is how experts think it went down ...

Conservator David Thurrowgood has held a long fascination with ceramic fragments and glass washed ashore or found at sea, in particular porcelain dinnerware salvaged from Sydney Cove, a centuries ...

And Heineken is recalling specific 550ml bottles of Newcastle Brown Ale due to the presence of glass fragments. The implicated products have batch numbers L4321, L4322, L4323, L4324, L4325 and ...

A young man, described by a judge as "extremely immature", has avoided jail for forcing a vulnerable former friend to snort glass fragments off his car dashboard and then threatening his victim's ...