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 20, 2022
Simple Gene Circuits Hint at How Stem Cells Differentiate
A computing legend wants more math in programming; James Webb Space Telescope on "The Joy of Why"; An unreal thought experiment; Knot complexity
Simple Gene Circuits Hint at How Stem Cells Find New Identities
By VERONIQUE GREENWOOD
Synthetic biology experiments suggest a "MultiFate" model for how genetically identical cells become the many different types found in complex organisms like us.
Will the James Webb Space Telescope Reveal Another Earth?
Podcast hosted by STEVEN STROGATZ
Marcia Rieke and Nikole Lewis, two of the scientists leading JWST investigations, talk to Steven Strogatz about how it may transform our understanding of the universe.
Celebrating an Overlooked Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu was a brilliant nuclear physicist whose discovery of parity violation by the weak force was unjustly overlooked for a Nobel Prize. Yasmin Tayag profiles her for Popular Science. Madame Wu's experiment showed that all neutrinos are left-handed. This and other quirks of particle physics can be seen in Quanta's map of the Standard Model, created by Natalie Wolchover, Samuel Velasco and Lucy Reading-Ikkanda.
Dark History An ancient collision might be responsible for the missing dark matter in two galaxies, reports Emily Conover for Science News. When the galaxies collided, the dark matter would have passed through unperturbed, while the regular particles slammed against one another. While the existence of galaxies without dark matter has been a mystery, they have helped physicists rule out certain alternatives to dark matter such as modified Newtonian dynamics. Joshua Sokol explained it for Quanta in 2018.
