It’s a bit sad, but terms like “climate change” are highly polarising and politicised today. Any mention of it immediately turns sceptics off from reading news about this global problem. Researchers have found that news articles about climate change and its effects are more effective if they don’t include the words “climate change” or “global warming”. Why? Because sceptics feel like including those terms are trying to persuade or manipulate readers into agreeing with a “political” stance that they (or their politcal party) don’t believe in. 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
