  We re-examine the jet probes of the nucleon spin and flavor structures. We
find for the first time the time-reversal odd (T-odd) component of a jet,
conventionally thought to vanish, can survive due to the non-perturbative
fragmentation and hadronization effects and could be testable. This additional
contribution of a jet will lead to novel jet phenomena relevant for unlocking
the access to several spin structures of the nucleon, which were thought to be
impossible by using jets. As examples, we show how the T-odd constituent can
couple to the proton transversity at the Electron Ion Collider (EIC) and can
give rise to the anisotropy in the jet production in $e^+e^-$ annihilations. We
expect the T-odd contribution of the jet to have broad applications in high
energy nuclear physics.
