Does it ever feel like some social media sites are dominated by one political viewpoint? Well, there may be some truth to that, at least in the US. Journalists use different social media depending on their audiences’ political leanings. Right-leaning news organisations are more likely to mention Facebook as one of their organisation’s top social media sites. In contrast, left-leaning organisations are twice as likely to use Instagram. 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
