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Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai win Nobel Prize in chemistry

Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.

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Both outlets center the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine going to Karl Deisseroth and two German scientists for work in optogenetics. The shared framing is that the research could deepen understanding of how the brain works. BBC News is slightly more specific in describing the award as about revealing the brain’s inner workings, while 60 Minutes emphasizes that the discoveries could reshape how the brain is studied and how it processes information.

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