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...smasher is the Soviets' 76 billion-electron-volt accelerator near Moscow. As in some other circular accelerators, Batavia's "bullets" are protons. The arsenal that provides them is a device called a Cockcroft-Walton accelerator (named after two British physicists), which produces protons by boiling electrons off hydrogen atoms. After these protons are given an initial boost by the machine's high-voltage field, they are pushed by powerful pulses of high-frequency radio waves through a relatively short (500 ft.) linear accelerator. In the process, their energy is boosted to 200 million electron volts. Next...
...Germany, with no access to the world's few known helium sources, was forced to use hydrogen, which is lighter than helium but dangerously explosive...
...legs of Rita Hayworth in 1944's hot pants but neglects the 500,000 U.S. war casualties of that year. It is amused by the crew cuts and slang of 1953 but forgets the anti-Communist hysteria and the fear that followed detonation of Russia's first hydrogen bomb...
...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...
...second letter, they described that mechanism: how the DNA molecule unwinds and unzips itself right down the middle during cell division, its base pairs breaking apart at their hydrogen bonds. Then by drawing on the free-floating material surrounding them in the nucleus of the cell, the two separated strands link up with complementary base-and-strand units along their entire length, forming two exact copies of the original double helix. Thus DNA faithfully passes its genetic information on to new cells and to future generations...