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.
Controversy Continues Over Whether Hot Water Freezes Faster Than Cold
By ADAM MANN
Decades after a Tanzanian teenager initiated study of the "Mpemba effect," the effort to confirm or refute it is leading physicists toward new theories about how substances relax to equilibrium.
A global, multidisciplinary effort is underway to write the essential axioms of math in a language that AI can understand. Hear Steven Strogatz interview Kevin Buzzard, one of the project's key contributors, on the latest episode of The Joy of Why.
Protein Blobs Linked to Alzheimer's Affect Aging in All Cells
By VIVIANE CALLIER
Protein buildups like those seen around neurons in Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other brain diseases occur in all aging cells, a new study suggests. Learning their significance may reveal new strategies for treating age-related diseases.
In recreational mathematics, the balance scale is an endless source of puzzles that require precise logic and teach the fundamentals of generalization.
A Moment of Crystalline Perfection A time crystal is a phase of matter that emulates the periodic structure of a regular crystal, but instead of repeating a pattern in space, it repeats it in time. Dianna Cowern explains time crystals for her YouTube channel The Physics Girl. Time crystals were first theorized in 2013, then experimentally realized on Google's quantum computer last year. Natalie Wolchover wrote about the experiment for Quanta.
Where Do You Get That Glow? Bioluminescent bacteria can make the ocean glow. Sailors have noticed it for centuries, but now some are joining forces with scientists to study the science behind this "milky sea," writes Sam Keck Scott for Hakai Magazine. Although bioluminescence is relatively common in nature, it's poorly understood. In 2016 Steph Yin wrote for Quanta about studies that had started to reveal the evolutionary and chemical origins of the phenomenon.
