Chirality refers to two versions of a structure – be that light, molecules or crystals – that are almost identical but cannot ...

A new platform for engineering chiral electron pathways offers potential fresh insights into a quantum phenomenon discovered by chemists—and exemplifies how the second quantum revolution is fostering ...

You’d think there would be a law against this, and scientists thought there was, but somehow it happens, and it could help ...

A pioneering research lab at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has achieved another milestone using light-driven ...

Although chiral structures are chemically identical, they cannot be rotated into one another—similar to our right and left hands. This property is particularly important in the pharmaceutical ...

Over and over, biochemists have found that when living cells use chiral molecules, they use one chirality exclusively. The sugars that make up DNA, for example, are all right-handed. The amino ...

In chemistry, chirality is a property that refers to a pair of molecules that share atomic makeup but are mirror images of each other. Like your left and right hands, they can’t be superimposed on ...

In chemistry, however, chirality is often treated as a binary characteristic, with molecules coming in two versions called enantiomers, which are mirror images of each other – much like a pair of ...

Chirality is a signature of life as we know it. Over and over, biochemists have found that when living cells use chiral molecules, they use one chirality exclusively. The sugars that make up DNA, for ...