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  "id": 12985619,
  "title": "Nobel Prize Winner Soai's Discovery May Shed Light on Life's Origins",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/nobel-prize-winner-soais-discovery-may-shed-light-on-lifes-origins",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-08T23:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Nippon.com News",
    "slug": "nippon-com-news",
    "url": "https://www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2026100800997/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Tokyo, Oct. 9 (Jiji Press)--A reaction discovered by Kenso Soai, co-winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, may help explain why life on Earth uses only one of the two mirror-image molecular forms and guide the search for the origins and traces of life. Organic molecules, such as amino acids, that are essential to life can exist in two mirror-image forms, much like left and right glove...",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}