Amid growing debates about the benefits and risks of studying looking-glass versions of life’s building blocks, there is an urgent need to bridge divergent views. Prohibiting the creation of molecules ...

From living matter to molecules to elementary particles, the world is made of “chiral” objects that differ from their reflected forms. After her adventures in Wonderland, the fictional Alice stepped ...

Scientists are considering what limits to potentially place on mirror-image cell research. Kateryna Kon / Science Photo Library via Getty Images Scientists have been voicing concerns over the creation ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. After her adventures in Wonderland, the fictional Alice stepped through the mirror above her fireplace in Lewis Carroll’s 1871 novel ...

Scientists have warned that research into “mirror life” organisms — hypothetical life forms made up of molecules that perfectly mirror those found in regular life — should be stopped. Theoretically, ...