To explore this long-standing mystery, an international team of scientists formed a group known as the Collaboration for ...

“Mirror life”—a synthetic organism, mirror-reversed on the molecular level from natural life—sounds like an impossibility. And so far, it is—even the simplest mirror bacterium would be dramatically ...

Paris summit warns about “mirror life.” Scientists call for early limits on mirror bacteria that could evade defenses and ...

Physicists have finally turned a long standing thought experiment into a laboratory reality, showing that electromagnetic waves can be reflected in time as cleanly as light bounces off a mirror in ...

A category of synthetic organisms dubbed “mirror life,” whose component molecules are mirror images of their natural counterpart, could pose unprecedented risks to human life and ecosystems, according ...

Consider your hands. They are essentially identical in every respect bar one: They are mirror images of each other. Many of the molecules of life, such as proteins and DNA, have the same property.

Just when you thought you had enough to worry about, scientists came up with a new world-ending anxiety for us all. A dire warning about something nobody outside the relevant fields knew anything ...

"Mirror bacteria" being developed in labs could be a looming risk to the health of humanity, scientists have warned. These hypothetical organisms get their name from how their molecules would face the ...

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