Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric synthesis, work that explains how a tiny imbalance between mirror-image molecules can grow into near purity.
Anthropic says its Claude agents found a new CRISPR-like enzyme system in phage DNA. A Copenhagen researcher says his team had already identified it, and he is asking what data the model saw.