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, June 24, 2022
By Exploring Virtual Worlds, AI Learns in New Ways
New theories of planet formation; One driver of biodiversity in the Amazon; The primes become even more special; The Quanta Science Podcast
By Exploring Virtual Worlds, AI Learns in New Ways
By ALLISON WHITTEN
Intelligent beings learn by interacting with the world. Artificial intelligence researchers have adopted a similar strategy to teach their virtual agents new skills.
An Immunologist Fights Covid with Tweets and a Nasal Spray
By YASEMIN SAPLAKOGLU
On Twitter, immunologists like Akiko Iwasaki are educating the public in real time about developments in the pandemic, including the potential of nasal spray vaccines.
Podcast hosted by SUSAN VALOT; Story by JORDANA CEPELEWICZ
Biomechanical interactions, rather than neurons, control the movements of one of the simplest animals. The discovery offers a glimpse into how animal behavior worked before neurons evolved.
When Viruses Get Worse Viruses often get milder over time, but that's far from always the case. For The New York Times, Carl Zimmer considers the deadliest vertebrate virus, myxoma, which in the 1990s evolved to become more virulent among the rabbit populations it ravaged. The uncertainty of virus evolution is relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic. Virologists are trying to better understand this by mapping out the "fitness landscape" of all possible mutations of SARS-CoV-2, Carrie Arnold reported for Quanta in January.
Physicists Spot Strong Signs Physicists think they have seen the first convincing evidence for the "tetraneutron," a short-lived particle composed of four neutrons, Emily Conover reports for Science News. Studying this exotic particle could help us learn more about nuclear forces. The strong force binds neutrons together but also keeps individual neutrons together — until the weak force eventually wins and the neutron decays. In 2018 Natalie Wolchover wrote for Quanta about what we can learn from studying neutron lifetimes.
