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On Wednesday 7 October, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Henri B. Kagan of France and Kenso Soai of Japan, for work that explains how one of life's strangest features — its one-handedness — can arise on its own (Reuters). Heiner Linke, who chairs the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, put the claim plainly: the pair "have provided a solution to a chemical mystery that is over a century old: how homochirality can emerge spontaneously" (LCGC International).
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