Believe it or not, a lot of doctors go to work even if they’re sick. While this seems ludicrous (wouldn’t that risk patients’ health?), they’re often unable to take sick leave. There just aren’t enough doctors to fill in for sick ones. The medical practitioner shortage in the US causes doctors to go to work with anything from contagious respiratory illnesses to painful kidney stones. It’s quite cruel and dangerous, but it’s a system-wide reality. 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
