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, May 13, 2022
Black Hole Image Reveals Beast in Center of Milky Way
Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way's central black hole; Machine scientists; Polynomial complexity; De-extinction; Podcast on the brain's semantic map
Black Hole Image Reveals Beast in Center of Milky Way
By JONATHAN O'CALLAGHAN
In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope released a historic image of a supermassive black hole in another galaxy. The follow-up — an image of Sagittarius A* — shows it shimmering in the heart of our own.
Powerful 'Machine Scientists' Distill the Laws of Physics From Raw Data
By CHARLIE WOOD
Researchers say we're on the cusp of "GoPro physics," where a camera can point at an event and an algorithm can identify the underlying physics equation.
Computer Scientists Prove That Certain Problems Are Truly Hard
By MORDECHAI RORVIG
Finding out whether a question is too difficult to ever solve efficiently depends on figuring out just how hard it is. Researchers have now shown how to do that for a major class of problems.
Why 'De-Extinction' Is Impossible (But Could Work Anyway)
By YASEMIN SAPLAKOGLU
Several projects are aiming to bring back mammoths and other species that have vanished from the planet. Whether that's technically possible is beside the point.
New Map of Meaning in the Brain Changes Ideas About Memory
Podcast hosted by SUSAN VALOT; Story by JORDANA CEPELEWICZ
Researchers have mapped hundreds of semantic categories to the tiny bits of the cortex that represent them in our thoughts and perceptions. What they discovered might change our view of memory.
Error Correction Without Magnets Physicists have achieved error correction on their spin qubits without using a magnetic field, reports Martijn Boerkamp for Physics World. This new zero-field technique eliminates the magnetic field itself as a source of error. The code was implemented on three qubits, which allowed the researchers to correct for either "bit-flips" or "phase-flips" but not both. In 2021 Katie McCormick wrote for Quanta about a 9-qubit code that corrects for both.
Bending Light to See New Earths Scientists are designing a new telescope that will use the gravitational pull of the sun to bend and focus light from distant sources, reports Elizabeth Howell for Inverse. This "gravity telescope" would be used to hunt for Earth-like planets around other stars. Gravity telescopes have been used before. In 2017, Ashley Yeager wrote for Quanta about new observations of the universe's earliest galaxies aided by a "giant cosmic lens" of galaxies and dark matter in the foreground.
