What is the value of grief? Some argue that grief (not to be confused with mourning, which is the public display of grief) allows us insight into a normally masked version of ourselves; the vulnerability that is exposed during grief opens the doors to self-knowledge. In tangent with this, grief counselling has two distinct benefits: first, to help us through the grief; and second, to understand what the grief has revealed about ourselves. 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
