News tagged with mirror image

I win, you lose: Brain imaging reveals how we learn from our competitors

Learning from competitors is a critically important form of learning for animals and humans. A new study has used brain imaging to reveal how people and animals learn from failure and success.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 13, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mirror images united: Simultaneous binding of both enantiomers of a drug to an enzyme

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the binding pockets of enzymes their natural binding partners fit exactly. The principle by which many pharmacological agents work also relies on the fact that these substances fit exactly into the pockets ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Molecules wrestle for supremacy in creation of superstructures

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research at the University of Liverpool has found how mirror-image molecules gain control over each other and dictate the physical state of superstructures.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Molecules which flip into their own mirror image

Catalysts do function, despite the fact that not all the chemical reactions (and partial reactions) which occur are fully understood, including those which take place during the treatment of automobile exhaust. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 29, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Dutch chemists make new chiral palladium metal

Researchers at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have succeeded in making the first ever piece of chiral palladium metal. The findings, by a research team led by Gadi Rothenberg, professor of Heterogeneous Catalysis and Sustainable ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 4


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