The price disparity between men’s and women’s razors in supermarkets is an example of the pink tax at work. The pink tax is not a real tax, but is gender-based pricing discrimination; it’s the phenomenon where products marketed towards women are more expensive than identical products marketed towards men. It’s most often seen in the personal hygiene aisle, where female-targeted products can be as much as 13% more expensive than their male-targeted counterparts. 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
