This is the show's opening segment, where hosts Lester Nare and Krishna Choudhary greet listeners and introduce the episode's topic, the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, as the final installment of their Nobel Prize week coverage. They frame the prize as being about molecular handedness, noting that life overwhelmingly favors one mirror-image form of a molecule, and preview that the episode will connect this to how medicines are made and to the deeper question of why life chose particular molecular building blocks. No scientific mechanism or finding is explained here.
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1:33Hello, internet, this is your captain speaking, Lester Nare joined as always by my co-host and our resident PhD, Krishna Choudhary. We are on day three and our final day of Nobel Prize week. We are going to go from the search for ghostly particles in Antarctica to the winner of the Chemistry Nobel Prize. And this one is interesting and it reminds me of one of my favorite episodes that we did at the end of last year. We have left and right hands and similarly, there are left and right
2:16molecules, but life overwhelmingly prefers one specific type. Today's prize is about how chemistry can make that asymmetry happen. It connects the way we make medicines to a much older question. Why did life settle on particular molecular building blocks in the first place? This is gonna be interesting. As always, we are going to talk about the science from the ground up today, starting with who won.
Nobel PrizeChemistryBiochemistryChemical origin of lifeSynthetic Biology