THE CASE IN BRIEF

In experiments designed by physicist Chien-Shiung Wu and colleagues, certain radioactive decays did not behave like their mirror images. Their discovery overturned the assumption that parity symmetry always holds: the weak nuclear interaction distinguishes left from right.

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