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  "id": 12604071,
  "title": "Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for work on mirror-image molecules",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/nobel-prize-in-chemistry-awarded-for-work-on-mirror-image-molecules",
  "topic": "science",
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  "published": "2026-10-07T10:14:02.000Z",
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    "name": "Guardian Science",
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    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/oct/07/nobel-prize-chemistry-awarded-work-on-mirror-image-molecules"
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  "summary": "Henri B Kagan and Kensō Soai awarded prize for discovery of nonlinear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis The Nobel prize in chemistry 2026 has been awarded to two scientists for discoveries that showed how chemical reactions can produce one of two mirror image forms of a molecule. Henri B Kagan at Paris-Sud University in France and Kensō Soai at Tokyo University of Science…",
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