How accurate is a podcast ranking? Often, not very accurate. Different ranking services use different measuring tools that track different metrics, leading to vast discrepancies between the ranking services. Take Podtrac’s prefix analytics. It sees every single device as a different user, so the weekly viewer estimate is unintentionally inflated. One day, you’re listening to your favourite podcast while driving; the next, on your laptop while doing a project. Even though it’s just you, it counts you as two people! Read full article here
Science
‘Ghostly’ neutrinos provide new path to study protons
In groundbreaking research, an international collaboration of scientists from the University of Rochester have used a beam of neutrinos to measure the size and shape of the protons that make up the nuclei of atoms. This feat, once thought impossible, provides scientists with a new way of looking at the small components of an atom’s nucleus and opens up a wealth of new information about the structure of an atom’s nucleus and the dynamics of the forces that affect neutrino interactions. The researchers solved the challenge of harnessing neutrinos in large numbers by using a neutrino detector containing a target of both hydrogen and carbon atoms, and over nine years of data collection at Fermilab’s accelerator. Read full article here
Merv
March 25, 2023
