Benedictine monks were allegedly among the first to have a semblance of routine as we know it in modern times. Governed by their clocks, they began doing things at the same time every day. They “rose together, ate together, and prayed together” in accordance with the canonical hours. Eventually, tradespeople and merchants from their town started aligning their day-to-day tasks with the tolling of the monastery’s bells, cementing the routine as standard by the time of the Industrial Revolution. 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
