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N.A.S.

American  
Or NAS

abbreviation

  1. National Academy of Sciences.

  2. naval air station.


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“I would buy into that,” said James P. Collins, an evolutionary ecologist at Arizona State University and co-chairman of the N.A.S. committee on gene drives.

From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2017

“That’s not a question for scientists to answer on their own,” said Jason A. Delborne, a social scientist at North Carolina State University and a member of the N.A.S. gene drive committee.

From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2017

The resulting fire, the N.A.S. and anti-nuclear watchdogs have cautioned, could send across Cape Cod and northern New England many times the amount of radioactive cesium-137 released in the Chernobyl disaster.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 25, 2016

Extract from the pilot script for Emerald Point N.A.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

An N.A.S. review panel and the committee agreed, however, to water down that observation.

From Time Magazine Archive