For 96 hours, Harvard researchers blindfolded thirteen healthy young individuals. Ten of the thirteen participants reported experiencing unexpected, uncontrollable visual hallucinations that began between the first and second day. The vast majority of respondents who experienced hallucinations also observed flashing lights at various points during their experience. Incredibly, the individuals adjusted far more quickly than the researchers anticipated: “They were seeing with the tip of their finger.” 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
