From living matter to molecules to elementary particles, the world is made of “chiral” objects that differ from their ...

A study has found that an ancient protein motif that binds to nucleic acids is functionally "ambidextrous." This means that ...

A Princeton team uncovered a surprising chiral quantum state in a supposedly non-chiral material, shedding light on elusive ...

the particle becomes identical to its mirror image. When this happens, you can't extract position information from the scattered light, and at the same time, the quantum backaction vanishes." This ...

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