News & Views piece for A. Fleischer et al., Nature Photonics 8, 543 (2014), originally published as Nature Photonics 8, 501 (2014). We comment on the experimental production of circularly polarized XUV radiation using a table-top high-harmonic generation process employing counter-rotating circularly polarized drivers in an ω-2ω configuration, by A. Fleischer and co-workers, as well as their investigation of the features of the conservation of spin angular momentum in HHG. Taken from https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/41942 under its CC BY-NC-ND license.