Left and right circularly polarized light, where the electromagnetic waves spiral in a clockwise and counterclockwise manner ...

Both results make use of chirality — a structural design that does not show mirror symmetry. Some naturally occurring materials, such as milk or sugar solutions, have extremely weak chirality.

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 ...

Same with alpha helices, the building blocks of proteins. Chirality, or handedness, is everywhere in biology, but the reasons can be a mystery. Greg Huber, a biophysicist and researcher at the ...

TIANJIN -- Scientists have achieved a major breakthrough in the construction of dynamic supramolecular snub cubes, according ...

Natural life is characterized by specific molecular chirality, with ribonucleic acid (RNA), deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), and proteins being composed of specific enantiomers. Advances in synthetic ...

A team of physicists led by The City College of New York's Lia Krusin-Elbaum has developed a novel technique that uses ...

“Mirror bacteria” could evade people’s immune systems, they suggest, causing deadly infections. Such infections could also lead to a substantial proportion of plant and animal species being displaced, ...

Experts sounded an alarm about the potentially lethal risks of creating mirror bacteria, synthetic organisms in which the molecular structure found in nature is reversed.

A team of physicists led by The City College of New York’s Lia Krusin-Elbaum has developed a novel technique that uses ...