Carbon capture systems are one of many potential solutions to the climate crisis, but they’ve come under fire for possibly resulting in more carbon emissions. Although the increased carbon gets siphoned, purified, and stored underground and underwater, environmentalists are criticising it for delaying decarbonisation. While carbon capture does help us achieve our net-zero emission goal, we must combine it with a departure from fossil fuels. Since carbon-heavy industries can now shove the problem out of sight, experts are worried that they might be less inclined to reduce their carbon output. Read full article here
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‘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
