ScienceAlert: Strange Metal From Beyond Our World Found in an Ancient Treasure Stash
Amidst a cache of glittering golden treasures from the Iberian Bronze Age, a pair of corroded objects might be the most precious of all.
A dull bracelet and a rusted hollow hemisphere decorated with gold are forged, researchers have found, not out of metal from beneath the ground, but with iron from meteorites that fell from the sky.
The discovery, led by now-retired head of conservation at the National Archeological Museum Spain, Salvador Rovira-Llorens, was revealed in a paper published last year, and suggests that metalworking technology and techniques were far more advanced than we thought in Iberia more than 3,000 years ago.
BBC: US measles outbreak sickens nearly 100 in Texas, New Mexico
“It is troubling, because this was completely preventable,” Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease physician and senior scholar at Johns Hopkins University, told CBS News, the BBC’s American news partner.
“It’s the most contagious infectious disease known to humans,” she added.
Symptoms of the highly infectious illness include fever, cough, runny nose, eye irritation and a signature rash.
A measles infection can have particularly devastating complications for pregnant women and young children, including pneumonia, neurological impairment, hearing loss and death, and survivors are at risk of developing a degenerative brain and nervous system disease known as subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE).
Stuff: Plane that flipped over in Canada highlights some of the dangers of holding kids on your lap
A 6-month-old boy traveling on a parent’s lap was killed in 2012 when a plane landed hard and overran the end of a runway in Nunavut, Canada. Last year, three infants on laps could have been sucked out of an Alaska Airlines plane after a door plug flew off midflight, but none were sitting close enough to the opening for that to happen.
Should baby seats be required?
Last Updated: 23.Feb.2025 03:58 EST
