estimate
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They also used long-term trends in discovery rates to estimate how many species may exist overall.
From Science Daily
The Energy Information Administration estimates that U.S. coal consumption this year will be up 9% compared with 2024 on higher electricity demand.
The large size of the study allowed researchers, for the first time, to estimate how much of a rat's microbiome was shaped by its own genes versus the genes of the rats it lived with.
From Science Daily
At least 600 have died and thousands more have sustained injuries, according to South Korean estimates.
From Barron's
Economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal raised their estimated probability of a recession over the next 12 months to 45%, from 22% in January.
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