Kristina Killgrove

1 month ago | livescience.com | Kristina Killgrove |Nicoletta Lanese

Since the inauguration of President Donald Trump on Jan. 20, a number of actions aimed at slashing federal science spending and restricting research topics have begun to worry the American scientific community. These include firing many — then rehiring some — staff across major science agencies, as well as holding up over a billion dollars in federal funding and triggering a pause in graduate admissions and faculty job postings at universities.

Jan 15, 2025 | livescience.com | Kristina Killgrove

A volcanic eruption in 2910 B.C. may be the reason Neolithic people on a small island in the Baltic Sea buried hundreds of stones decorated with plant and sun imagery, archaeologists suggest in a new study. "We have known for a long time that the sun was the focal point for the early agricultural cultures we know of in Northern Europe," Rune Iversen, an archaeologist at the University of Copenhagen, said in a statement.

Jan 15, 2025 | msn.com | Kristina Killgrove

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Jan 15, 2025 | livescience.com | Kristina Killgrove

Celtic society in England was female-focused 2,000 years ago, a genetic study of Iron Age skeletons reveals. DNA analysis of dozens of ancient burials uncovered a community whose lineage could be traced back to one woman, and showed that men joined the group upon marriage.

Jan 15, 2025 | livescience.com | Kristina Killgrove

Archaeologists in France have discovered dozens of Roman-era graves of men who were buried with "curse tablets," at least one of which was written in an extinct language. Excavations underneath an 18th-century hospital in the town of Orléans, about 75 miles (120 kilometers) southwest of Paris, have revealed more than 60 burials arranged in a single row along a wall.