Nobel Prize in Chemistry: France's Henri Kagan and Japan's Kenso Soai honoured for the mirror-molecule puzzle
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AustraliaCanberra takes note of the practical aspect of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry: mirror molecules that, when properly chosen, separate the medicine that heals from the one that worsens the condition, using mint and caraway to illustrate.
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United StatesThe United States takes away from this Nobel a century-old chemical enigma, solved by reactions deemed "spectacular" and useful for the manufacture of medicines, in a dispatch tone.
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Pharmaceutical framework
the narrative highlights the choice of the right form of a molecule for a drug.
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United StatesCalendar
the narrative places the price in the succession of Nobels for the week rather than in the scientific contribution.
Uncorrected age error
the NPR version attributes 95 years to Soai, whereas HuffPost, after correction, attributes them to Kagan.
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026
millions of Swedish crowns
only one reports it12 million Swedish crowns