mystery
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By solving the mystery of chirality, Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai worked out how to design chemical reactions to produce much more of the desired version of a molecule.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
The discovery of pottery decorated in Mississippian styles only deepened the mystery.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
Along with being an origin story and an alien hunt unfurling in a 2016-set timeline, “Lanterns” grounds itself in a murder mystery that defines its 2026 plot running in parallel.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
The circumstances around their deaths are shrouded in mystery even as the search has concluded at a property in Lancaster where law enforcement spent two days digging.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Bulik had agents track down the two American students who’d met the mystery man in Moscow.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
Nobel Prize-winning American researcher Karl Deisseroth is a psychiatrist, neuroscientist and bioengineer who has spent more than two decades illuminating the workings of the brain to unlock its mysteries.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
The film takes its time in unfolding its mysteries, yet it charts every moment with an unsettling psychological realism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Also, live demonstrations of Nikola Tesla’s lightning machine, magic and talks, one featuring a chief engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory that’ll delve into the mysteries of the universe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
That spread of responses highlights how little consensus exists around one of the central mysteries of modern cosmology.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
There are so many new mysteries to solve now, and none of them bigger than the baby’s rescue.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
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