Birds of the same feather flock together; do people with the same scent get along swell? It looks like we click with people who smell like us! In a test called the Mirror Game, scientists had 17 strangers stand near each other and mimic each other’s movements silently, and then asked if they clicked with the stranger they had just played the game with. 77% of those who said they clicked with each other had similar odours, meaning they clicked based on nothing more than how the other person smelled. 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
