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  • The handedness of supramolecular helices formed from achiral monomers has been controlled by applying rotational and gravitational forces, but at the start of the assembly process only. This demonstrates that a falsely chiral influence is able to induce absolute enantioselection.

    • Laurence D. Barron
    News & Views
    Nature Chemistry
    Volume: 4, P: 150-152

  • Telling if a molecule is right-handed or left-handed is a venerable problem, but traditional approaches cannot touch the subtlest cases. As so often, technical innovation has provided the way forward.

    • Laurence D. Barron
    News & Views
    Nature
    Volume: 446, P: 505-506

  • The synthesis of chiral magnetic molecules allows the first observation of strong magneto–chiral dichroism, where unpolarized light is absorbed differently for parallel and antiparallel propagation with respect to an applied magnetic field.

    • Laurence D. Barron
    News & Views
    Nature Materials
    Volume: 7, P: 691-692

  • A global network of researchers was formed to investigate the role of human genetics in SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 severity; this paper reports 13 genome-wide significant loci and potentially actionable mechanisms in response to infection.

    • Mari E. K. Niemi
    • Juha Karjalainen
    • Chloe Donohue
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 600, P: 472-477

  • It is generally believed that rapid dissipation means that spatially precise heating is not feasible via thermoplasmonic means. Here, the authors induce highly localized heating around plasmonic nanostructures by pulsed laser irradiation, which effects chemical modification of surface bound molecules.

    • Calum Jack
    • Affar S. Karimullah
    • Malcolm Kadodwala
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 7, P: 1-8

  • The symmetry of metal ions in inorganic nanofilms can be manipulated by the transfer of optical spin from a chiral light beam. Here the authors present a route to functional manipulation that does not require the application of extreme conditions.

    • Christopher Kelly
    • Donald A. MacLaren
    • Malcolm Kadodwala
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 11, P: 1-7

  • This study uses a combination of human fMRI and computational modeling to show that decision-making can be explained by a hierarchical model involving competition between different options at many different levels of representation. These results do not support a model where competition happens only at a final choice stage.

    • Laurence T Hunt
    • Raymond J Dolan
    • Timothy E J Behrens
    Research
    Nature Neuroscience
    Volume: 17, P: 1613-1622

  • The importance of left- and right-handedness in nature is such that scientists have often wondered about its origins. The first use of a magnetic field to bias a chemical reaction in favour of one mirror-image product provides a possible explanation.

    • Laurence D. Barron
    News & Views
    Nature
    Volume: 405, P: 895-896

  • In this Opinion article, Hunt and Hayden highlight that many of the models for reward-based choice are based on distinct component processes that occur in series and are functionally localized. They argue that, instead, such choice emerges from repeated computations that are undertaken in many brain areas.

    • Laurence T. Hunt
    • Benjamin Y. Hayden
    Reviews
    Nature Reviews Neuroscience
    Volume: 18, P: 172-182