Life is remarkably selective. Life relies on many molecules with what is termed “handedness”—they’re chemically identical but are mirror images of each other. Most chemical reactions will make a 50/50 ...
Creating a quantum device often begins by intentionally damaging a crystal. Scientists fire an ultrafast laser pulse into a ...
The Nobel Committee recognized them for “the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.” ...
From thalidomide to resveratrol, molecules with the exact same chemical properties can have drastically different effects in ...
The 2026 Nobel Prize in chemistry gave a hand to handed molecules – and the processes chemists use to create them.
Amber Fort’s ambitious push to save medieval murals. ‘Sattvic’ art, scientific makeover.
“Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai have provided a solution to a chemical mystery that is over a century old: how homochirality can ...
Bone tumors can cause symptoms such as persistent pain and unintended weight loss, or they might only be discovered when ...
Deep space travel comes with a huge potential downside—radiation exposure that can kill an astronaut either quickly or slowly ...
A proposed beamline at SESAME in Jordan could give African researchers regular access to synchrotron science while building ...
Researchers have captured key steps in a chemical reaction that helps nature transfer energy with remarkable efficiency. Ultrafast X-rays revealed how changes involving electrons and protons are ...
It is an old urban legend that your microwave could be giving you cancer, but is it actually true? Microwave ovens produce ‘microwaves’, or a form of non-ionising electromagnetic radiation. While a ...