atlas
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Melvin West, 70, sliced the map from a 1684 atlas by Dutch cartographer Frederik de Wit while viewing it at the Caird Library, part of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, in February 2025.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
The court heard West, from Chingford in east London, had viewed the atlas on 19 and 20 December 2024 and again on the day before the theft.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
The atlas also establishes a detailed reference for healthy mouse brain tissue.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
Beyond identifying the brain's chemical structure, the atlas offered new insight into how that structure changes during pregnancy.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
Wrinkles formed an atlas on her wide, weathered face.
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
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
It has produced draft atlases of the brain and lung and researchers are working on the kidney, liver and heart.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2024
Other anatomical atlases exist, but these illustrations had especially fine details, including of the nerves extending beyond the brain and spiral cord.
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 kept thinking about maps, like the way sometimes when I was a kid I would look at atlases, and just the looking was kind of like being somewhere else.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
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