{"id":237104,"date":"2026-05-14T02:27:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/a-strange-quantum-effect-may-explain-one-of-biologys-greatest-mysteries"},"modified":"2026-05-14T02:27:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:27:21","slug":"a-strange-quantum-effect-may-explain-one-of-biologys-greatest-mysteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/a-strange-quantum-effect-may-explain-one-of-biologys-greatest-mysteries","title":{"rendered":"A Strange Quantum Effect May Explain One of Biology\u2019s Greatest Mysteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-strange-quantum-effect-may-explain-one-of-biologys-greatest-mysteries.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Electron spin may subtly break the symmetry between mirror-image molecules, helping explain why biology chose one molecular hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electron spin may subtly break the symmetry between mirror-image molecules, helping explain why biology chose one molecular hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}