Across the world, there have been many assassinations of national leaders, both successful and attempted. But do assassinations accomplish anything? Well, yes; assassinations have been shown to change the history of certain nations. Countries whose autocrats and dictators were assassinated were more likely to move towards democracy and have sweeping leadership changes. However, there’s a big risk associated with an assassination attempt on an autocrat. If it fails, the nation is less likely to become democratic, especially as the autocrat cracks down on opposition forces. 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
