{"id":922730,"date":"2026-07-27T01:12:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T06:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/27\/twisted-laser-light-distinguishes-mirror-image-molecules-by-their-fragment-counts\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T01:12:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T06:12:34","slug":"twisted-laser-light-distinguishes-mirror-image-molecules-by-their-fragment-counts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/27\/twisted-laser-light-distinguishes-mirror-image-molecules-by-their-fragment-counts\/","title":{"rendered":"Twisted laser light distinguishes mirror-image molecules by their fragment counts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Many molecules exist in two mirror-image forms\u2014like left and right hands\u2014that look identical but can behave very differently, especially in biological systems and pharmaceuticals. Distinguishing between these enantiomers (also called chiral molecules) is a longstanding challenge in science and technology. A useful analogy is that of a screw and a nut: A right-handed screw fits only into a right-handed thread&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-07-laser-distinguishes-mirror-image-molecules.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Tyisha Grumbles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Many molecules exist in two mirror-image forms\u2014like left and right hands\u2014that look identical but can behave very differently, especially in biological systems and pharmaceuticals. Distinguishing between these enantiomers (also called chiral molecules) is a longstanding challenge in science and technology. A useful analogy is that of a screw and a nut: A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":922731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4699,536,34405],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-922730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-laser","category-science-nature","category-twisted"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/922731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}