helix
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And so it goes in “The Last Kings of Hollywood,” as the lives and ambitions of Messrs. Coppola, Lucas and Spielberg entwine around one another in a triple helix.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
You can look at friendship as a journey that is like a double helix: Sometimes you and a friend will be in sync financially or emotionally, and other times you’ll be out of alignment.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 28, 2026
Electric current flowed more easily in one direction, and the effect could be reversed by changing the magnetization or switching the handedness of the helix.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 25, 2026
Form and content, the visual and the physical, create art’s spellbinding double helix.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
This did not mean that we were necessarily wrong—with luck the extra water might be fudged into vacant regions on the periphery of our helix.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
Inspired by nature, nanotechnology researchers have identified 'spontaneous curvature' as the key factor determining how ultra-thin, artificial materials can transform into useful tubes, twists and helices.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 4, 2024
“But I think the most surprising observation was that the proteins were embedded among the RNA helices, penetrating into the interior of the ribosome like tentacles.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2018
For one thing, it draws a brilliant, eclectic crowd: I met a linguist turned classical musician, a minimalist sculptor fascinated by helices and a Jungian writer at work on a dystopian novel.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 19, 2018
Lehn cited an example of two kinds of molecules, one of which forms double helices and the other forms triple helices.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 3, 2013
During reproduction, the helices separate, assisted by a special unwinding protein, each synthesizing an identical copy of the other from nucleotide building blocks floating about nearby in the viscous liquid of the cell nucleus.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Traditionally, hosts serve visitors bowls of dried fruits and nuts: floral-scented green raisins, apricots twisted into sugary helixes, pistachios fat like rosebuds about to bloom.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
The best designs were made of three helixes connected like sausage links by short strings of amino acids.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 22, 2021
For now, these protein helixes can’t convey genetic information that cells can read.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 21, 2016
These tiny helixes can be propelled using a rotating magnetic current and controlled using a joystick.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2016
The currency of evolution is neither hunger nor pain, but rather copies of DNA helixes.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
Vocabulary lists containing helix
"Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone, Chapters 28–37
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