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unusual facts about Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences



Acinonyx kurteni

The fossil skull was discovered in 2008 and described in 2009 by Per Christiansen, from the Zoological Museum in Copenhagen, and Ji H. Mazák, of the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA.

Adrian Owen

His post-doctoral research on working memory with Michael Petrides, (PNAS, Cerebral Cortex, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Brain and others) was instrumental in refuting the then prevailing view of lateral frontal-lobe organisation advanced by Patricia Goldman-Rakic and others, and is still widely cited in that context.

Brain fart

The scientists detailed their findings on 21 April 2008 online in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Janusz Jankowski

Prof Jankowski has over 200 publications of which 140 are in peer reviewed papers including those in the Cancer Research, Gastroenterology, GUT, Human Molecular Genetics, The Lancet, Nature, Nature Genetics, New England Journal of Medicine and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

Monera

In 1977, a PNAS paper by Carl Woese and George Fox demonstrated that the archaea (initially called archaebacteria) are not significantly closer in relationship to the bacteria than they are to eukaryotes.

Stanley Awramik

In 2003, he, Frank Corsetti and David Pierce published evidence in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of fossilized microbiota in Cryogenian rocks, a revelation which has cast doubt on the notion of the near elimination of life during potential equatorial glaciation during that period (commonly referred to as Snowball Earth).


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Kolyma River

In February 2012, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reported that scientists had grown plants from 30,000-year-old Silene stenophylla fruit, which was stored in squirrel burrows near the banks of the Kolyma river and preserved in permafrost.