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, February 17, 2023
Gene Expression in Neurons Solves a Brain Evolution Puzzle
Plus: Language AI tackles high school math; heart attack recovery; Feynman diagrams aid math puzzle; new Quanta Science Podcast
Gene Expression in Neurons Solves a Brain Evolution Puzzle
By ALLISON WHITTEN
The neocortex of our brain is the seat of our intellect. New data suggests that mammals created it with new types of cells that they developed only after their evolutionary split from reptiles.
To Teach Computers Math, Researchers Merge AI Approaches
By KEVIN HARTNETT
Large language models still struggle with basic reasoning tasks. Two new papers that apply machine learning to math provide a blueprint for how that could change.
She Studies Growing Arteries to Aid Heart Attack Recovery
By CLAUDIA DREIFUS
Regenerative medicine researcher Kristy Red Horse's discoveries may someday help damaged hearts heal better. Her stewardship of her Native American heritage may advance science in other ways too.
Inside the Proton, the 'Most Complicated Thing You Could Possibly Imagine'
Podcast hosted by SUSAN VALOT; Story by CHARLIE WOOD Graphics by MERRILL SHERMAN
The positively charged particle at the heart of the atom is an object of unspeakable complexity, one that changes its appearance depending on how it is probed.
Ripples of Information Gravitational waves produced by neutron star collisions provide invaluable clues about the life cycle and contents of these stellar corpses, Sophia Chen writes for WIRED. In 2020, one gravitational wave signal had properties so unexpected that it forced astronomers to radically revise their models of how neutron stars are born. Dana Najjar wrote about it for Quanta.
Defining Life Our cells are made of complicated micromachines driven by electric potentials. Precisely where that complexity shades into "life" is difficult to define. Kurzgesagt explains how life is an emergent phenomenon in a new video. There are many different definitions of life, and all come with exceptions. For The Joy of Why podcast, Steven Strogatz spoke with astrobiologist Robert Hazen and chemist Sheref Mansy about the dividing line between the living and non-living on a "continuum of chemical complexity."
