Chirality—the property of an object that is distinct from its mirror image—has long captivated scientists across biology, ...

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

which is based on the assumption that the molecules that gave rise to life were formed through the spontaneous desymmetrization of symmetry. "According to one of the widely held theories about the ...

But this symmetry was unstable. As the universe cooled, it underwent a process called spontaneous symmetry breaking, rather like a phase transition when a gas condenses to a liquid, say ...

Chirality — the property of an object that is distinct from its mirror image — has long captivated scientists across biology, chemistry, and physics ...

However, conventionally synthesizing colloidal molecules with such specific symmetry requires a multi ... This entire self-assembly process is spontaneous. The researchers also discovered that ...