Many molecules come in two mirrored forms—like left and right hands—but living organisms generally contain only one. However, ...
Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their efforts to resolve mysterious mirror ...
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.
Azobenzene is one of the best-known molecules that can be switched between two forms by light. However, the question of how the molecule moves in the first few picoseconds (trillionths of a second) ...
“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 ...
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 ...
TCT speaks to Paul Brackman, X-ray Product Manager for ZEISS Research & Quality Solutions USA, about how ZEISS is supporting ...