Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai have won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing chemical reactions that explain how homochirality can emerge spontaneously, solving a mystery over a century old.
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Solves a century-old mystery." Sure it does. A reaction in a clean flask, with purified reagents and a researcher’s careful hands, is not a muddy prebiotic puddle getting rained on for a billion years. Where’s the geology? The plausible feedstock? The energy source? Show me chirality surviving real conditions, not a curated beaker, and I’ll believe the mystery is closed.
