By separately scattering right- and left-handed electrons off quarks in a deuterium target, researchers have improved, by about a factor of five, on a classic result of mirror-symmetry breaking from 35 years ago. See Letter p.67
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Marciano, W. Quarks are not ambidextrous. Nature 506, 43–44 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/506043a
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