Scientists Give a Hand(edness) to the Search for Alien Life

Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 16:49 in Astronomy & Space

(PhysOrg.com) -- Visiting aliens may be the stuff of legend, but if a scientific team working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology is right, we may be able to find extraterrestrial life even before it leaves its home planet -by looking for left- (or right-) handed light.

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