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, April 22, 2022
New Proof Reveals the Hidden Structure of Common Equations
Van der Waerden conjecture; Inflammation on "The Joy of Why"; Vijay Balasubramanian; Sexy worms feel the heat; Five worlds of cryptography
The immune system protects us from a full spectrum of pathogens, but without balance, it can end up hurting us over time, too. The immunologist Shruti Naik explains how our defenses can turn on us.
Vijay Balasubramanian investigates whether the fabric of the universe might be built from information, and what it means that physicists can even ask such a question.
In Sexy Worms, Inheritance Beyond Genes Can Help Evolution
By CARRIE ARNOLD
Experiments that showed a surprising persistence of sexiness in worms reveal how much we are still learning about the rules governing heritability, epigenetics and natural selection.
Which Computational Universe Do We Live In? Here Are Five Possibilities.
By ERICA KLARREICH
In 1995, the computer scientist Russell Impagliazzo described five possible worlds with ascending levels of cryptographic possibility. Any of these could be the world we live in.
Batting Average Supaporn Wacharapluesadee was the first scientist outside of China to sequence SARS-CoV-2. Jon Cohen writes for Science about her efforts to prevent the next pandemic by finding novel bat viruses before they spill over to humans. There is growing support for focusing more science on animal viruses as a way to anticipate and prevent spillover to humans. In 2020 Rodrigo Pérez Ortega wrote for Quanta on recent research into self-disseminating vaccines for wildlife.
Feeling Ghosted Neutrinos are perhaps the most puzzling particles in the Standard Model. Uncovering their mysteries could help us reveal the secrets of dark matter, too, as Jackson Ryan explains for CNET. Physicists think that several conflicting neutrino measurements could be resolved by introducing a new "dark sector" of particles. These particles might simultaneously explain dark matter and dark energy, Thomas Lewton wrote for Quanta in 2021.
