inflammageing n.— «Claudio Franceschi of the University of Bologna, who studies people who live beyond the age of 100, coined the term “inflammageing.” “There is a strong inflammatory element in all the major diseases of...
planemo n.— «He proposes a natural upper limit for a “planetary mass object” of about 13 times the mass of Jupiter, or about 4,000 Earths.…Because anything bigger, including stars and brown dwarfs, is able to fuse...
summer melt n. a reduction in the number of students who enroll at a specific college or university in the autumn, as compared to those who earlier in the year confirmed they would attend. Also just melt or, rarely, summer thaw. (source: Double...
summer melt n.— «Bryant said that, typically, some students change their minds during the summer. However, he said, he is confident that the university will not lose significant numbers to what he calls “summer melt...
summer melt n.— «Because of overcrowding problems in previous years, the college reduced the number of offers of admission from 3,486 in 2003 to 3,366 this year. However, this year the college’s admissions office experienced an unexpected...
summer melt n.— «The largest-ever freshman class has caused a housing crunch at Penn State University.…“We expect that we will see a couple hundred more students change their minds over the summer.” While the admissions...