Historically, pandemics seem to have long-term effects that debilitate people long after they’ve been infected. For example, influenza is speculated to infect the brain and cause inflammation because there’s always a wave of strokes and heart attacks after every flu season. Because of this, people (especially those experiencing long COVID or with disabilities) are urging policymakers to take long COVID seriously. COVID has already been recognised to have long-term effects on ten organ systems, including the heart and the brain. 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
