An integration of maths and magic, the magic separate card trick requires no sleight of hand. This trick ends with the performer having the same number of face-up cards as the spectator. It works because there is only a fixed number of face-up cards in the deck. By subtracting the number of face-ups in the performer’s hand from the total number of face-ups in the deck before it was split, the performer knows how many cards to flip to match the number of face-ups in the participant’s hand. 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
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March 25, 2023
