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 17, 2022
Wheel Made of ‘Odd Matter’ Spontaneously Rolls Uphill
Hunger impacts vision; Defining life on "The Joy of Why"; Surfaces hold their own in four dimensions; Daniel Spielman finds opportunity in failure
The Brain Has a 'Low-Power Mode' That Blunts Our Senses
By ALLISON WHITTEN
Neuroscientists uncovered an energy-saving mode in vision-system neurons that works at the cost of being able to see fine-grained details. It might be significant for memory and learning too.
Without a good definition of life, how do we look for it on alien planets? Steven Strogatz speaks with Robert Hazen, a mineralogist and astrobiologist, and Sheref Mansy, a chemist, to learn more.
Special Surfaces Remain Distinct in Four Dimensions
By KEVIN HARTNETT
For decades mathematicians have searched for a specific pair of surfaces that can't be transformed into each other in four-dimensional space. Now they've found them.
Lean In Mathematicians are building a digital repository of mathematics using a software program called Lean. In 2020 Kevin Hartnett wrote for Quanta about Lean and the future of mathematics and computer-aided proofs. Lean has come a long way since 2020. Last month, a team of researchers released an algorithm that can automatically prove multiple mathematical theorems after using the Lean database as a training set.
Gaia's Latest Look New data from the Gaia space observatory gives us the most in-depth look yet at our galaxy. The data includes the chemical makeup of over 60,000 asteroids and detailed maps of the dust between stars, reports Asa Stahl for Science News. Gaia's previous Milky Way map was already helping to fill in some missing pieces about our galaxy. It analyzed over 1.6 billion stars and found new features such as flowing streams of stars, Natalie Wolchover wrote for Quanta in 2018.
