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First held in 2018, the week stems from the island's involvement with an online atlas of wildlife.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026
The Conservatory project has created what researchers describe as a "comprehensive atlas of regulatory conservation across plants, including dozens of crop species and their wild ancestors."
From Science Daily ● Mar. 14, 2026
Researchers at The Rockefeller University built the most detailed atlas so far of how aging affects thousands of cell subtypes across 21 mammalian tissues.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 28, 2026
"It's a good idea to carry a road atlas for back-up, too."
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026
Their weird library had St. Exupéry but nothing so secular as an atlas of the world, so I had to work from memory.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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Histological atlases map its architecture at cellular resolution using microscopic images of tissue slices.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
"Most large atlases like this require large consortia with dozens of laboratories but our method is far more efficient than other approaches."
From Science Daily ● Feb. 28, 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
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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