Watch the announcement of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry from the official Nobel Prize channel. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences recognised work on mirrored molecules — chemistry that learned to produce one handed version of a molecule rather than the other — a capability the committee described as foundational to modern medicines.
The official announcement explains why handedness matters: mirror forms of the same molecule can behave entirely differently in the body, so synthesising the chosen form cleanly is both a scientific and a therapeutic achievement. The work honoured this year showed, first in principle and then with high efficiency, how reactions could be guided to a single mirror outcome.
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Media Remarks Science coverage this week also explains related laboratory advances in fibre sizing, nitrogen control and tumour immunology for readers following the research behind the headlines.
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