{"id":196103,"date":"2024-09-13T03:03:33","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T08:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/a-completely-new-structure-of-light-has-been-created-the-chiral-vortex"},"modified":"2024-09-13T03:03:33","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T08:03:33","slug":"a-completely-new-structure-of-light-has-been-created-the-chiral-vortex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/a-completely-new-structure-of-light-has-been-created-the-chiral-vortex","title":{"rendered":"A Completely New Structure of Light Has Been Created: The Chiral Vortex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-completely-new-structure-of-light-has-been-created-the-chiral-vortex2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTraditional measures of chirality have struggled to identify the concentration of right-and left-handed molecules in samples containing almost equal amounts of both,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/mbi-berlin.de\/research\/highlights\/details\/new-chiral-vortex-of-light-reveals-molecular-mirror-images\">says<\/a> physicist Nicola Mayer, from the Max Born Institute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith our new method, a tiny excess in the concentration of either mirror twin can be detected, possibly enough to make a life-changing difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re not sure how chirality first emerged, but it may have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/life-s-lopsidedness-could-have-rained-down-on-us-from-space\">originated from deep space<\/a>, before going on to play a profound role in so many different aspects of life on Earth. Having instruments that can better detect chiral molecules would be a major step forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTraditional measures of chirality have struggled to identify the concentration of right-and left-handed molecules in samples containing almost equal amounts of both,\u201d says physicist Nicola Mayer, from the Max Born Institute. \u201cWith our new method, a tiny excess in the concentration of either mirror twin can be detected, possibly enough to make a life-changing difference.\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196103","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=196103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}