Slocum n.— «Sea gliders were conceived in the 1980s by Douglas Webb, a former researcher at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Only in recent years, though, have they become fully operational and more capable. Some are called...
It’s the Moby Dick of etymology: Where do we get the phrase “the whole nine yards”? A pediatrician in North Carolina wonders if it derives from a World War II phrase involving “nine yards” of ammunition. Grant and...
obesogen n.— «One key researcher in the field, Bruce Blumberg of the University of California, Irvine, has even coined a new word for chemicals that can make you fat: Obesogens.» —“Is plastic making us fat?” by Is plastic...
Garbage Patch n.— «They were trapped in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, a gigantic swirl of rotating water thousands of miles across, which is also known as the Garbage Patch.…Our oceans have become vast rubbish dumps and the...
throap n.— «Besides the thriller element, the serial also delves into the personal relationships of Ranvir with his ex-fiancee Kinnari and Meghana, a researcher who works with him. For want of a word to describe his serial, Singh has...
space grass n.— «A field researcher has also donated a rare sample of what UFOlogists refer to as “space grass.” “The sample I have comes from a sighting that occurred in 1973 in Westmoreland County,” he said...