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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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That project also produced a groundbreaking 2022 paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

From Science Daily • Jun. 7, 2026

The findings by physicists Ching-Wu Chu and Liangzi Deng were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

From Science Daily • May 27, 2026

Their findings were published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

From Science Daily • May 13, 2026

According to a 2024 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that used census records, an updated estimate for the number of deaths related to the four-year conflict is 698,000.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

Later that year came the award ceremony for the Comstock Prize, given every five years by the National Academy of Sciences for outstanding work in physics.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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