Rowland’s Chiro-optical Spectroscopy and Chiral Discrimination group have published a PRL paper, “Chiral molecules split light.”
Update 11/2/06: Also see the Physical Review Focus article.
Update 11/9/06: PhysicsWeb has a brief piece on the experiment.
Chirality of amino acids found in ancient meteorites is one of the topics I cover in the March issue of Intute Spotlight
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