In 2024, a group of scientists wrote a paper warning about the end of all life on Earth. Or not the end, really — instead, it would be a kind of new beginning.
See, all cells have a structure, and those structures have an orientation. Given that Pluribus, the new sci-fi mystery that is all about this, is a Vince Gilligan joint, you may even be familiar with the concept. Because if you watched Breaking Bad, the generational smash hit that first put Gilligan on the map, you would have heard chemistry teacher-turned-meth kingpin Walter White explaining it.
It’s called chirality. For all us D science students in the audience, it basically amounts to the idea that the smallest building blocks of life are oriented a certain way, and if flipped, they wouldn’t be the same things anymore.
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