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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

And accepting that joyful sorrow and sorrowful joy are the double helix of parental DNA takes time.

From Salon ● Jun. 4, 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

Electric current flowed more easily in one direction, and the effect could be reversed by changing the magnetization or switching the handedness of the helix.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 25, 2026

Remarkably, the three R’s of gene physiology are acutely dependent on the molecular structure of DNA—on the Watson-Crick base pairing of the double helix.

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

So over our gooseberry pie we looked at the pros and cons of one, two, three, and four chains, quickly dismissing one- chain helices as incompatible with the evidence in our hands.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

The best designs were made of three helixes connected like sausage links by short strings of amino acids.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 22, 2021

Grant Green’s guitar style is one of jazz’s simple pleasures: stout and crisp; articulated in strong, single-note lines or little spinning helixes of harmony.

From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2018

For now, these protein helixes can’t convey genetic information that cells can read.

From Science Magazine ● Jul. 21, 2016

But Mariana Medina-Sánchez, one of the researchers, cautioned that further research is needed to make sure the helixes aren’t harmful.

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