One mirror-image of the chemical carvone smells like mint, for example. The prize money this year is 12 million Swedish kronor, whether for an individual, a small group of laureates or an organisation.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to duo for 'spectacular' chemical reaction
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How outlets headlined it
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- ABC News Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to duo for 'spectacular' chemical reaction
- BBC News (Science and Environment) Chemistry Nobel awarded for solving mystery of life's asymmetry
- The West Australian Nobel Prize in chemistry set to be awarded in Stockholm
- Ars Technica Neutrino physicist wins 2026 Nobel Physics Prize
- The West Australian Nobel Prize in physics to be awarded in Stockholm
- ABC News Nobel medicine prize awarded to scientists for brain activity research
- The West Australian Nobel medicine prize goes to research of brain activity
Headline check
One of the three things this headline claims is not in the report.
- The headline puts “spectacular” in quotation marks. Nobody says those words anywhere in the report.
Figures, names and quoted words in the headline, looked for in the report itself — not in the summary above. How this is checked
A summary of ABC News’s report. The score is for the full 419-word report.
How calmly each outlet wrote it
The West Australian and Ars Technica also covered it; we only receive their summaries, so their writing is not scored here.
| Outlet | Niral Score | Adjectives | Sourcing | Sentiment | Mood |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC Newsas they published this story | 90 | 7 | 34 | 0.3 | 83.1 |
| BBC News (Science and Environment) | 87.2 | 8 | 37 | 0.0 | 56.2 |
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The same event elsewhere
4 outlets reported this story: the one you are reading and the other 3 below. The table above compares the reports we could score.
BBC News
Chemistry Nobel awarded for solving mystery of life's asymmetry
Niral 87.2 · mostly calm writing
political 0
The West Australian
Nobel Prize in chemistry set to be awarded in Stockholm
summary only, not scored
Ars Technica
Neutrino physicist wins 2026 Nobel Physics Prize
Niral 89.5 · mostly calm writing
political 0