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A proposed experiment to probe superchiral light would send circularly polarized light (green helix) through molecules of different chirality or 'handedness' (labeled here as L and R, for left-handed and right-handed). Credit: Adam Cohen and Yiqiao Tang/Harvard University; figure by Lu Men


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