When you look in a mirror, the reflection is fundamentally you, but with a perfect reversal of all your features. This illustrates a phenomenon we also see in the tiny world of molecules.

In a mirror, left and right become swapped. While you unscrew a bottle cap anti-clockwise in the real world, in the mirror you’ll be rotating it clockwise. Anything that has a handedness -- left ...

A league of scientists are calling for a critical discussion on the dangers of life forms made up of 'mirror-image molecules', because of the significant risks these creations may pose to global ...

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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 ...

Scientists believe that mirror bacteria constructed from mirror images of molecules found in nature could put life on Earth at an ‘unprecedented risk’. The international group of Nobel laureates and ...

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Laura is an editor and staff writer at IFLScience. She obtained her Master's in Experimental Neuroscience from Imperial College London.

So-called mirror cells could rampage through our ecosystems, food supply and immune systems, experts say, potentially without existing barriers to protect against them Eli Wizevich History ...

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A group of researchers has published new findings in Science Policy Forum on potential risks from the development of mirror bacteria—synthetic organisms in which all molecules have reversed ...