B mesons
In today's New Scientist, there is an article about flipping particles.
B mesons consist of a bottom quark and an anti-strange quark. It turns out that the bottom becomes an anti-strange and the anti-strange becomes a bottom. This exchange occurs one trillion times a second. The change appears to be mediated by some boson that noone has seen before.
The exchange violates CP conservation.
So the standard model of particle physics may need revision.

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