helix

We transformed the Supreme Court’s “Nothing to see here” into an avowal of the freedom to marry under the Constitution’s double helix of liberty and equality for all.

From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026

Each double helix contains vast arrays of chemical subunits that function like the zeroes and ones in a computer program.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

Still, Harper and Yasmin’s existences are inextricably linked, gnarled together in a helix of favors and bargains.

From Salon ● Mar. 1, 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

For A, T, G, and C to sit in the interior of the DNA double helix, they had to have some interaction, some relationship.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

By comparing helices of different sizes and measuring their behavior at various temperatures, the researchers traced the diode effect to uneven scattering of electrons along the curved, chiral walls of the devices.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 25, 2026

Collins: You’re talking about genetic determinism, which implies that we are helpless marionettes being controlled by strings made of double helices.

From Scientific American ● May 20, 2020

“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

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

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

He bends thin strips of wood into arrangements that suggest waves, helixes, musical notation and basket-weaving gone wild.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 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