Light has long been used to detect the chirality of molecules but high-order harmonic generation now provides access to these chiral interactions on ultrafast timescales.
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Cho, M. Drive round the twist. Nature Phys 11, 621–622 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3395
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