atlas
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In one interview in 2024, he struggled, external to name a favourite novel and when he appeared on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs he picked an atlas as the book he would take with him.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Other scientists say the atlas could also help neurosurgeons navigate the brainstem more safely.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
The aim is to build an atlas of how diet interacts with the body, and to pinpoint which molecules really matter for health.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026
An agreeable companion on the page, Mr. McCarthy prefers scenic parkways to multilane highways and amusingly relies on a Rand McNally road atlas instead of phone-enabled navigation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
The overseas calls were killing me, so I invested in an atlas and a shelfful of almanacs and reference books.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
That does not mean scientists have lacked brain atlases.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
They hold thousands of maps and atlases of everything from cave networks to mountain ranges to capital flows to the surface of the moon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
The Nazi atlases “were like documents of death. The atlases that Shiv is creating are really living, interactive tools to support life.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2024
Eventually, the team envisions uLIPSTIC as a key tool in the effort to generate comprehensive atlases describing how cells interact to form tissue -- a key to the long-awaited interactome.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2024
I knew from studying atlases as a kid that Cymru meant Wales.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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