Washing our dirty laundry is pretty bad for the environment; we use so much water and energy just to get rid of its funky smell. So, many research groups are trying to develop fabrics that don’t get stinky that quickly. One of these is HeiQ Fresh. To make HeiQ Fresh, food processing waste products are refined into an amino sugar polymer. The polymer attacks odour at its source: the volatile organic compounds that bacteria eat from our sweat! 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
