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...Ulrik Linderstrom-Lang, director of the Carlsberg Laboratory in Copenhagen . . . Sc.D...
Tangled Proteins. Life has mysteries that are just as baffling as those of inanimate nature. Danish Biochemist Kaj Ulrik Linderstrom-Lang pays his baffled respects to the proteins, of which all living objects are largely made. Living cells, even simple bacteria, make proteins by the dozens, but human chemists so far have not synthesized any. The proteins' molecules probably have long central chains of amino acids. These are coiled like springs, and all sorts of chemical oddments must be attached at precisely the right turns of the spiraling chains...
...group of Soviet meteorologists, who have recorded Arctic temperatures for a decade, reported last fortnight that the Arctic is warmer. They are backed up by Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, onetime chief of Explorer Roald Amundsen's scientific staff, now head of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California, who found Arctic sea water warmer in 1931 than it was in 1918. The Northern Hemisphere is still recovering from the last great glaciation of the Ice Age, though for chronological purposes this period is considered to have ended some 20,000 years ago. The continental ice sheet which once covered...