element
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To better understand the DNA sequences that control this process, researchers in the laboratory of University of California San Diego Professor James T. Kadonaga focused on an important DNA element known as the "initiator."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
Strangers sang to each other in joyful unison, while others closed their eyes or held their hands on their chest in complete awe of witnessing a veteran artist in her element.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
To maintain the shifting menu’s element of surprise, photography is prohibited at the restaurant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
“But there’s also this other universe of stocks that, day in and day out, provide an element of portfolio diversification because they move inversely to the index.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
Where Aristotle had assumed that each element behaved differently, the new physics assumed that all heavy objects could be thought of as the same.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
“There are so many natural elements to it,” Spohn assured me during our lesson.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
For centuries the finest medical minds harped on attuning a balance among the four humors—sanguine, choleric, melancholic and phlegmatic—in tender young constitutions by adjusting the proportions of hot-cold and moist-dry elements in the diet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
From October, French and Polish soldiers, along with elements of the US Army and British groups, will also take part in border-securing activities, the generals said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
Although the study focused on just one nucleus, the researchers say the findings could improve nuclear models across a much wider range of elements and reactions.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
When listening to music, sound vibrations enter the auditory cortex and are instantaneously broken down into elements of pitch, timbre, spatial relations, and tone duration.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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