Word: hydrogen
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...architecture of their precisely constructed double helix emerged the secret of DNA's awesome powers. The banisters of the staircase were fashioned of long links of sugars and phosphates; the steps between them were made of pairs of chemicals called bases, weakly joined at the center by hydrogen atoms. Only four different bases were used?adenine (A), thymine (T), cytosine (C) and guanine (G). But their sequence could vary so widely along the length of the staircase that they made up an almost limitless information-storage system, like the memory bank of a computer. In addition, because the bases were...
...committee, which includes such prominent Americans as Dr. Edward Teller, inventor of the hydrogen bomb, and Clare Boothe Luce, widow of the publishing magnate, is convinced that Cuba was a launching pad for the student insurrections and black rebellions which plagued the U. S. during...
Black Holes. Some scientists think that the answer lies in vast clouds of hydrogen and helium gas discovered in intergalactic space. But others, including Cosmologists Alastair G.W. Cameron and James Truran of New York's Yeshiva University, doubt that the total mass of intergalactic gas is sufficient to provide the remaining gravitational pull. Instead, Cameron and Truran suggested at a meeting of the American Physical Society, the missing mass may be hid den away in a completely invisible form: inside so-called "black holes" in space...
EDWARD TELLER, physicist, is also a specialist in inconsistency. After Hiroshima, when many scientists who had worked on the atomic bomb left weapons work-Teller urged the development of the hydrogen bomb. During the McCarthy headhunting years, when many of these same scientists publicly defended their accused colleague, Robert Oppenheimer, Teller gave a testimony which, in effect, crucified Oppenheimer and ended his public career...
...talked about how he entered science for the love of science. About his belief in the fundamental neutrality of scientific research (a new placard read: "The War Criminal as Poet: The Hydrogen Bomb came from the sun and the stars).')" About another typical Teller theme-war. "If there is a World War III, it will be more horrible than any of us can imagine. But it will not be the end of the human race. It will be the end of freedom, real liberalism, and reason." (The latest placard echoed: "The War Criminal as War Criminal: 'We Must Prepare...