Hundreds of egg cartons available in supermarkets are possible only because of the breakthroughs of one Mary Engle Pennington. In her prolific career as a food scientist, she transformed the field of food safety, particularly the transportation and storage of perishable goods like eggs. Aside from her work in refrigeration and cold storage, Pennington also set her sights on improving egg packaging; she had five patents in 11 years related to eggs and poultry and developed a “breakage-reducing packing case” for eggs. 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
