When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...

Thus, the biological implications of chirality demand that we improve our ability to access chiral small molecules as pure entities. Though the field of asymmetric synthesis has its roots in ...

Chirality is a fundamental property of asymmetry in nature, where an object or molecule cannot be superimposed onto its mirror image. In the context of nanotechnology, chirality refers to the ...

The discovery challenges the long-held belief that life’s building blocks—specifically, amino acids and sugars—were strictly governed by chirality, the “handedness” of molecules.

known more technically as chirality. Two molecules can have the same chemical composition and arrangement while being mirror images of each other. All life on Earth has right-handed nucleic acids ...