Science news this week: Civil War haul and the moon’s hot blob

There’s gold in them thar hills! Or a minimum of within the farmlands of Kentucky, when you’re the fortunate farmer who found a haul of greater than 700 Civil Warfare-era cash buried in his cornfield. The “Nice Kentucky Hoard” contains a whole bunch of U.S. gold items relationship to between 1840 and 1863, along with a handful of silver cash. However that is not the one factor we unearthed this week — there was an enormous 300,000-year-old hand ax, a World Warfare II plane in Ukraine, an opulent Bronze Age tomb and an elite Roman man who might have come to a grisly demise. As if that weren’t sufficient, a hidden “underworld” linked to the Zapotec “cult of the lifeless” was found beneath a church in Mexico.      

Again aboveground, we had a child volcano rising in Iceland, spiders with weird feeding behaviors, a “gravity gap” within the Indian Ocean and a $500,000 chunk of “floating gold.”