"Mirror life" could pose unprecedented risks to the world, scientists warn
If everything that occurs at the microscopic, molecular level in plants and animals and other life forms occurs as a result ...
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Research collaboration between RIT and Cornell produces new technique to enhance sensors and photonic devices
RIT chemical engineering researcher contributes to new technique to manipulate light to improve applications for sensors, ...
Terahertz pulses induce chirality in a non-chiral crystal
Chirality refers to objects that cannot be superimposed onto their mirror images through any combination of rotations or ...
Twisting Crystals With Light: Unlocking Chirality in a Flash
A new technique involving terahertz light has enabled the creation of chiral states in non-chiral materials, offering ...
The Scientist1mon
Mirror Bacteria Research Poses Significant Risks, Dozens of Scientists Warn
Many of the undesirable reactions that mirror cells avoid depend on sensing and reacting with chiral molecules. Therefore, cells made up of mirror molecules would simply not interact with most normal ...
A spintronic view of chiral molecules: Physicists verify chiral-induced spin selectivity effect
The role of electrons and their negative charge in electric current is well established. Electrons also exhibit other ...
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Scientists use light to create handedness in non-chiral crystal
Chirality is the property of an object that makes it different from its mirror image, like our left and right hands. In ...
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"Mirror life" could pose unprecedented risks to the world, scientists warn
Chirality in molecules means they have a specific orientation in space such that the mirror image of the molecule in question cannot be perfectly superimposed on the original. Effectively, and ...