Thursday, August 29, 2013

Eastern Brazil's muriquis nicknamed “charcoal monkeys”

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Like hunters, soldiers and artists, after artificially camouflaging their face with sooty charcoal, muriquis show similar looking facial f...
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

El Rio de las Plumas: Feather River

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The Latin word pluma means “feather” in English. The Latin-derived English word “plumage” showcases the meaning of this root: the noun “p...
Wednesday, July 24, 2013

“Ebbett's Pass” or “Ebbetts Pass?”

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The Ebbett's Pass Trailhead is a gateway for hikers and horseback riders to the Pacific Crest Trail , connecting with scenic lakes a...
Monday, July 22, 2013

A term in biology: constructive neutral evolution

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The rise and evolution of novel, complex structures and operations in biological organisms is typically explained by processes involving ra...
Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Talus, meaning “rock debris” or “slope of rock debris”

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The word talus refers to rock debris at the base of a cliff, crag or valley shoulder. This word may also specify a slope covered with s...
Monday, July 8, 2013

Acronym in scent detection and civil security: EDC for explosive detection canine

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Explosive-sniffing dogs are trained and employed to detect hidden reactive substances with a destructive potential. Such dogs are called b...
Thursday, June 6, 2013

Silicene: a honeycombed, atom-thick sheet of silicon named to recall similarly structured graphene

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Silicene sheets can be epitaxially grown on a close-packed silver surface, Ag(111), via silicon atomic flux under ultrahigh vacuum conditi...