Scientists Win Nobel Prize for Discovering How to Make 'Mirror' Molecules

Researchers found a way to create specific chemical structures that have helped make life-saving medicines.

Scientists have just won the Nobel Prize in chemistry. This is one of the biggest honors you can get in science. They won it for figuring out a secret about how molecules work. Everything in nature is made of molecules. Some molecules are like your hands—they look the same, but they are mirror images of each other. You have a left hand and a right hand. They look like they match, but you can’t fit a right-hand glove on your left hand. Molecules work the same way. Scientists call this 'asymmetry.' For a long time, it was very hard for chemists to make just the version of a molecule they wan…