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atlas

[at-luhs] / ˈæt ləs /






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The resulting atlas revealed 539 chemically distinct territories, which the researchers named "lipizones."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

To construct the atlas, researchers used mass spectrometry imaging, a technique that allows them to identify lipid molecules across thin sections of brain tissue.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

New technology allowed us to find and catalog such networks—to construct an atlas of the mind.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

“Just as an atlas is a collection of maps, linking together features of the land like altitude and location, AlphaGenome Atlas charts the molecular effects of DNA variants across the genome.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Everything else was gone, including both our maps—the small one Emma had used to navigate us across the channel and the massive leather-bound loop atlas that had been Millard’s prized possession, the Map of Days.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

That does not mean scientists have lacked brain atlases.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

His meticulous survey takes in dozens of sources, from the obscure to the well-known: pamphlets to legal codes, sermons to atlases, maps, travel narratives, even journals kept by ships’ captains.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

The researchers will release their brain atlases as open-source references and provide the multi-tier mapping approach as an out-of-the-box package.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2025

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

As in all atlases, there were two completely blank pages at the very end.

From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl


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