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Paradoxical Mechanisms Uncovered – Chemists Have Filled a Major Gap in the Origin of Life


Molecules often have a structural asymmetry called chirality, which means they can appear in alternative, mirror-image versions, akin to the left and right versions of human hands. One of the great mysteries about the origins of life on Earth is that virtually all of the fundamental molecules of bio

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