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Chemical analysis of one of Thomas’s fossilized teeth has provided the most precise estimate yet of T. rex’s body temperature.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Scientists can estimate biological age by analyzing biomarkers, measurable features of the body that provide information about health and physiological function.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 16, 2026

The trade body’s economists estimate that would lower global exports by 18.6% and economic output 5.1% in 2050.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

This method allows researchers to compare multiple therapies across many different trials and estimate how each one performs relative to the others.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

She positioned the tin under the teat, trying to estimate where the milk would squirt.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

Sankar said that Micron is roughly 80% through its typical 18-month margin-expansion cycle, suggesting that earnings estimates in the near future might not increase as dramatically as they have been recently.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

That’s roughly how much extra U.S. consumers have spent on gasoline and diesel during the Iran conflict and disruptions from the Russia-Ukraine conflict, according to estimates by the Climate Solutions Lab at Brown University.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

CVL was careful to specify that its estimates only reckoned “employment capacity at risk” and wasn’t “a forecast of layoffs.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Also on Tuesday, the Pentagon told Congress that the cost of the war has climbed to $42 billion, a bit over the most recent estimates of $38 billion from the Congressional Budget Office.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026

Four of five times along this part of the route, one rail official estimates, authorities don’t stop the train.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

There were 58% more home sellers than buyers in the market in August, real-estate brokerage Redfin estimated, the largest gap since it began tracking the data in 2013.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

In the late 1980s, Saudi Arabia reached an estimated $3 billion deal with China to purchase Dongfeng 3A missiles, an intermediate-range missile.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

But Kpler estimated this had fallen to about 8.6 million barrels per day by the end of August.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

The other three groups, however, all showed reductions in the estimated biological age of their biomarker profiles.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 16, 2026

Records show that by the time of the American Revolution, an estimated 5 percent of Virginia’s enslaved population—totaling some 210,000 people in 1776—was considered mulatto.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

Even there, the population is small, with the most recent survey estimating just 140 mature individuals.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

Some current and former employees at Anthropic and OpenAI echoed his assessment, with one estimating the chance that “AI could kill all humans” at more than 10%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Asking not to be named in fear for the safety of relatives, they said mourning rituals were being held, estimating that at least 24 people had died.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

Pokharel believes the toll there could be far higher than official figures suggest, estimating that "2,000 to 2,500 people" may have been caught in the flood.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

It had long been known that the Earth radiated appreciable amounts of heat–that was apparent to anyone who went down a coal mine–but there wasn’t any way of estimating the rate of dissipation.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson