Why Life Is Left-Handed

Autocatalysis: the product helps make more of itself.
Asymmetric catalysis: it makes its own hand, not the other.
Mutual antagonism: left and right forms cancel each other out.

Why molecules come in mirror-image forms, why life uses only one hand, and how chemists found reactions that amplify a tiny imbalance: the story behind the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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