Did you know that there’s not one, but three types of inflation? (Well, there are probably more than that, but this article only focuses on three.) Inflation, defined simply, is the increase in prices in an economy and the subsequent reduction in the value of the country’s currency. This great infographic-based article highlights three separate causes of inflation: an increase in the supply of money by the government; an increase in the prices of consumer goods; or an increase in the prices of assets (think stocks and bonds). 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
