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6+ hour, 54+ min ago   (410+ words) Henri B Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for their work resolving a long-standing mystery over how mirror-image forms of chemical molecules can emerge spontaneously. “Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai have provided a solution…...

25+ min ago   (498+ words) Billions of years ago, simple organic molecules drifted across Earth's primordial landscape — nothing more than basic chemical compounds. But as natural forces shaped the planet over hundreds of millions of years, these molecules began to interact and bond in increasingly…...

2+ hour, 29+ min ago   (599+ words) How ‘one of the most spectacular chemical experiments ever conducted’ offers clues to life’s origins Kagan and Soai have been recognised specifically ‘for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis’. So what did Kagan and Soai…...

1+ hour, 52+ min ago   (605+ words) Scientists Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for untangling mysterious mirror images in molecules, a discovery that has been used to develop countless drugs and transformed modern medicine. Video above: FDA approves first-of-a-kind pancreatic…...

38+ min ago   (927+ words) Mildred S. Dresselhaus, a celebrated and beloved MIT professor whose research helped unlock the mysteries of carbon, the most fundamental of organic elements — earning her the nickname “queen of carbon science” — died Monday at age 86. Dresselhaus, a solid-state physicist who was…...

3+ hour, 14+ min ago   (669+ words) The prize was awarded for work that produces one version of a mirror image molecule. The 2026 Nobel prize for chemistry has been awarded to two researchers for their work on mirror-image molecules. Frances’s Henri Kagan and Japan’s Kensō Soai were…...

40+ min ago   (495+ words) Dietmar Seyferth, professor emeritus in the Department of Chemistry and pioneer in the field of organometallic chemistry, died of complications from Covid-19 on Saturday, June 6. He was 91. “Dietmar’s contributions to teaching, mentoring, and the field of organometallic chemistry comprise an…...

1+ hour, 17+ min ago   (414+ words) Henri B. Kagan, a 95-year-old French scientist, and Kenso Soai, a 76-year-old Japanese scientist, were awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in chemistry today for their work on manipulating a mirrored molecule’s chemical reaction. “Many molecules occur in two different versions. Like my…...

40+ min ago   (956+ words) Frederick D. Greene, an MIT professor emeritus of chemistry, died at 97. Greene was a physical organic chemist and MIT professor for over 40 years and is celebrated for his lasting impact on generations of chemists....

41+ min ago   (438+ words) Until just a few decades ago, human and pig skin were often used in burn treatments, but were commonly rejected by the body’s immune system. Immune suppressants also left patients vulnerable to infection. What's more, replacement skin often suffered from…...