During World War I, many French people turned to music to cope with their traumas. French musicians returned to what was familiar, departing from the lush, dissonant post-Romantic music of Wagner and Strauss and embracing the predictability and repetitiveness of the neoclassical style. It was soothing and familiar to them. The pieces performed were both old and new, dating back to the 18th century and written by fellow musicians who had either participated in or lost loved ones in the war. 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
