Saturday, August 30, 2014

The Ebola virus disease: classification and naming of a group of zoonotic filoviruses

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Are viruses of the Ebola type going to cause the next big human pandemic? So far, the Ebola virus disease , an often fatal illness, has aff...
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Sunday, April 27, 2014

A term in earth science: Great Oxidation Event

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The atmosphere of today's Earth contains about 21% of oxygen ( O 2 ). Early in its history, the anoxic Hadean Earth —as it is scientif...
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Thursday, March 20, 2014

Crane nomenclature borrowing from equine nomenclature

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Female cranes are known as mares , male cranes are known as roans and the chicks are known as colts [1,2]. Commonly, the term mare ...
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

The three- and four-syllable version of a chemical element name: alumin(i)um

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Common ores of the metal aluminum are bauxite and alumina . The English chemist and inventor Sir Humphry Davy christened the metal, which ...
Sunday, March 9, 2014

The aluminum-ore bauxite, named after the village of Les Baux in Provence, France

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Les Baux is a small town near St. Reny in the Bouches-du-Rhône department of the province of Provence in southwest France. Les Baux-de-Pro...
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Thursday, January 30, 2014

An anagram for LOVE: the word VOLE

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Voles are small, mouse-size mammals closely related to other rodents such as lemmings. Voles are famously monogamous [1]. The prairie vole ...
Friday, December 13, 2013

Scirus Exitus

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Scirus ( scirus.com ) is (was) a search engine serving the scientific community. Elsevier's subscription-free portal “ Scirus for sci...