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Cracking Chirality: The Mystery of Mirror Molecules
“Cracking Chirality” from Chemistry Shortsβ’ explores how the essential molecules of life, like DNA, RNA, and proteins, acquired their homochiral structures and how magnetic rocks at the bottom of a prebiotic lake, may have set the stage for life as … Continue reading
The Indian astronomer whose innovative work on black holes was mocked at Cambridge | Aeon Videos
When scientific pursuits are subject to human shortcomings: the Indian scientist made to wait 50 years for his Nobel Prize In the early 1930s, the Indian-born physicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910-95), who was then studying at the University of Cambridge in … Continue reading