Nobel Prize in Chemistry: France's Henri Kagan and Japan's Kenso Soai honoured for the mirror-molecule puzzle
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SenegalDakar takes away from the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry the scientific enigma: the Senegalese press explains the chirality of living things and the "spectacular reaction" of Kenso Soai, more than the national record.
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PeruLima takes note of the pharmaceutical aspect of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry: the Peruvian press presents Kagan and Soai's discovery as a tool for manufacturing medicines, with thalidomide as an example.
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Scientific framework
the narrative highlights the mystery of the origin of life's chirality.
Omission of concrete consequences
pharmaceutical use is mentioned in one sentence, without example.
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PeruPharmaceutical
the narrative highlights the medicinal use of the discovery rather than the fundamental chemistry.
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12 million Swedish crowns
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026
millions of Swedish crowns
only one reports itthis press does not report this figure