“Soil Your Underwear” is a campaign by the Philadelphia fashion brand The Big Favorite that sounds gross but is actually a cool experiment. It urges people and their kids to bury 100% cotton underwear in their gardens and check back on it in 60 days. It’s a way to test soil health. How? Made of cellulose, cotton is an appetising feast for the many microbes living in nutrient-rich soil. The state of decomposition of the underwear tells a story; if it’s well-decomposed, your soil is healthy! 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
