atlas

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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

Three years later, their partnership has produced an unprecedented body of knowledge about hundreds of protist species and laid the groundwork for a "planetary atlas" of plankton.

From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2025

The atlas project proceeded in fits and starts, with meeting minutes from 1831 recording, “the Committee was summoned for this day but Capt. Beaufort alone attended.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

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