Pankaj Sharma is one of the world's premier speakers on Leadership and Personal Mastery. As a presenter, Sharma has the rare ability to electrify an audience yet deliver uncommonly original and useful insights that lead to individuals doing their best work, teams providing superb results and organizations becoming unbeatable.
Pankaj Sharma is also a Research Scientist.
Friday, October 29, 2021
Neutrino Puzzles Point to the Possibility of Missing Particles
Is the Great Neutrino Puzzle Pointing to Multiple Missing Particles?
By THOMAS LEWTON
Years of conflicting neutrino measurements have led physicists to propose a "dark sector" of invisible particles — one that could simultaneously explain dark matter, the puzzling expansion of the universe, and other mysteries.
How Tadayuki Watanabe Disproved a Major Conjecture About Spheres
By KEVIN HARTNETT
Watanabe invented a new way of distinguishing shapes on his way to solving the last open case of the Smale conjecture, a central question in topology about symmetries of the sphere.
An Ultra-Precise Clock Shows How to Link the Quantum World With Gravity
By KATIE McCORMICK
Time was found to flow differently between the top and bottom of a single cloud of atoms. Physicists hope that such a system will one day help them combine quantum mechanics and Einstein's theory of gravity.
Where Transcendental Numbers Hide in Everyday Math
By PRADEEP MUTALIK
The two most famous transcendental numbers, ЁЭЭ┐ and ЁЭТЖ (Euler's number), seem mysterious and magical. This month's puzzle column challenges readers to use Euler's number to maximize marital bliss.
Podcast hosted by SUSAN VALOT; Story by JORDANA CEPELEWICZ
The subjective experience of our perceptions, memories and attention can be misleading about how the brain produces them. New research is revealing the truth.
An Exoplanet Outside the Milky Way The first extragalactic planet may have just been spotted in the nearby Whirlpool Galaxy. This is a hot, Saturn-sized planet orbiting far from its binary star system, Lisa Grossman reports for Science News. We can expect many more exoplanet discoveries with the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope. Earlier this month, Thomas Lewton interviewed the astronomer Laura Kreidberg for Quanta about her plans to use JWST to study the atmospheres of cooler, Earthlike planets.
Through the Quantum Looking Glass Physicists damped vibrations in LIGO's 40-kilogram mirrors down to the edge of the quantum limit, Emily Conover reports for Science News. The LIGO experiment is just one of many investigating the scales at which large, seemingly classical objects start to manifest quantum behaviors. Philip Ball described other experiments testing the limits of quantum mechanics for Quanta in August.
