The big bang and the genetic code: Gamow, a prankster and physicist, thought of them first
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The first serious theories of the Big Bang and the genetic code were formulated by the physicist George Gamow, born in Odessa in 1904. He showed that nuclear alpha decay could be understood by quantum mechanical tunnelling.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2000
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Out with a bang
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Issues are presented concerning the practice of semelparity by the male northern quoll. This marsupial is the largest animal to exhibit semelparity and the reasons for the evolution of its behavior are discussed.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2001
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The Big Bang is bang on: Did the Universe really start in a hot Big Bang?
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New measurements of the temperature of the early Universe provide confirmation that it was hotter in the past.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2000
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