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, August 12, 2022
Self-Taught AI Shows Similarities to How the Brain Works
Life may have started near deep-sea vents; Math and QFT on 'The Joy of Why'; Ancient equations inspire group theory; Why "nothing" matters in physics
A Biochemist's View of Life's Origin Reframes Cancer and Aging
By VIVIANE CALLIER; Video by EMILY BUDER
The biochemist Nick Lane thinks life first evolved in hydrothermal vents where precursors of metabolism appeared before genetic information. His ideas could lead us to think differently about aging and cancer.
What Is Quantum Field Theory and Why Is It Incomplete?
Podcast hosted by STEVEN STROGATZ
Quantum field theory may be the most successful scientific theory of all time, but there's reason to think it's missing something. Steven Strogatz speaks with theoretical physicist David Tong about it.
Growing Support for a Muon Collider Support for a plan to build the world's first muon collider is mounting in the US particle physics community, Elizabeth Gibney reports for Nature. At last month's Snowmass conference, advocates for the idea were even selling muon-themed t-shirts. Muons offer an especially rich vein for particle physics research because understanding their properties could help uphold or disprove the Standard Model, Natalie Wolchover reported for Quanta last year.
The Itsy Bitsy Dream State New research suggests that jumping spiders experience something like REM sleep and may even dream, reports Betsy Mason for Scientific American. Scientists observed the arachnids twitching slightly while they slept, just like restless kittens or puppies. Studying the sleeping habits of invertebrates like spiders has helped researchers come to understand that sleep probably evolved before animal brains did, as Veronique Greenwood reported for Quanta last year. Previous studies have also hinted that arachnids lead surprisingly complex interior lives. In a Quanta story from 2017, Joshua Sokol wrote about how spiderwebs can function as an extension of a spider's cognition.
