“It was his dream to see one of his trainees play in the NBA someday.” Punjab, home to an abundance of six feet and above players, is “the nursery for Indian basketball”, in part due to Dr Sankaran Subramanian and his efforts as a coach for the Ludhiana Basketball Academy. Subramanian could figure out his players’ every weakness and strength and toiled into the wee hours of the night watching videos and formulating strategies, fuelled by the dream to see India’s basketball scene be recognised internationally. 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
Merv
March 25, 2023
