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.