Ashes And Vegetables: The Diet Of Roman Gladiators Was Rather Poor
Ancient Greeks used onions as a performance-enhancing drug. Roman gladiators ate ashes and vegetables.
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Ancient Greeks used onions as a performance-enhancing drug. Roman gladiators ate ashes and vegetables.
Freshwater ecosystems are often extensively modified and impacted by anthropological activity. Therefore, many freshwater species encounter considerable risk of extinction. In Australian freshwaters, one taxon facing substantial endangerment from multiple stressors is the endemic freshwater crayfish genus Euastacus. However, in-situ investigations to examine the effect of these impacts on Euastacus populations are scarce. The critically endangered Fitzroy Falls spiny crayfish (Euastacus dharawalus) is facing considerable risk of extinction. This species is endemic to only one stream which has ...
March 13, 2023 — Oak Ridge, TN — Balendra Sutharshan has been named chief operating officer for Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He will begin [...]
After high school, UMass Amherst alumnus Jeffrey Salacup ’06, ‘08MS enlisted in the Air Force in order to finance his college education. He didn't know that his time in the military would set him on a path toward becoming a scientist. Now, manager of the Stable Isotope and Biogeochemistry Laboratories in the Morrill Science Center and faculty member in the geosciences department, Salacup works with students to study climate change in ecosystems of the past in order to better understand how it could affect our future.
In this Historically Speaking column D. Ray Smith writes about Chris Keim and Cooper 63 at Y-12.