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National Academy of Sciences

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noun

  1. a private organization, created by an act of Congress (1863), that furthers science and advises the U.S. government on scientific and technical issues. N.A.S., NAS


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Reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team describes the discovery of "chemical fossils" preserved in rocks more than 541 million years old.

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The work, presented at the Eurographics Conference on Visualization, represents the culmination of a broader color perception project that also produced a landmark 2022 paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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The research was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and supported by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

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The findings were published on Feb. 9 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the research is the first to directly compare how these two pandemics moved through U.S. metropolitan areas.

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