This article (and indeed, the whole website) is worth a deep dive just for the images it produces. Utilising computerised tomography, this website provides scans of the insides of everyday objects, alongside some insightful commentary. This particular article focuses on the evolution of the omnipresent AirPods, giving credence to Apple’s claims that each AirPod is a breakthrough compared to its previous iterations. “Apple was not the first company to develop wireless earbuds, but they’ve defined the category since introducing AirPods in 2016.” 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
