Nandita Dinesh catches herself reminiscing about toilets from different points in her life more often after hearing about India’s oxygen crisis and posits that it may be a defence mechanism. From the eerie hole-in-the-wall toilet in her childhood home to the filthy train toilets she refused to relieve herself in, these memories may be a way for her to “reminisce without cracking” under the mounting grief she’s processing over her dying countrymen. 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
