While most of us will ring in the new year with family and friends, science doesn’t take a holiday. And neither do the scientists responsible for big ongoing experiments. One of the more famous historical examples of this is the case of physicist Chien-Shiung Wu—often referred to as “Madame Wu”—who gave up vacationing with her husband in the 1950s to prove that nature is slightly left-handed.
Physicists had long thought that, when it comes to the laws of physics, nature has no preference when it…
Madame Wu and the Holiday Experiment That Changed Physics Forever
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