It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s… a fish? It’s raining fish in San Francisco! An upwelling of cold, nutrient-rich water from the ocean depths has caused an explosion in fish populations in San Francisco Bay. But that doesn’t explain how they end up on people’s roofs and on sidewalks. Well, the abundance of food attracts birds like pelicans to the bay, who carry off mouthfuls of fish back to their homes across San Francisco. It’s no surprise that they’d drop a few when their mouths are bursting with food! 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
