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 24, 2023
Physicists Use Quantum Mechanics to Pull Energy out of Nothing
Plus: The end of the universe; Microbes that eat viruses; Real-life pathogens that cause zombie-like behavior
Big Freeze, Big Rip, Big Crunch, Bounce or vacuum decay? Steven Strogatz speaks with theoretical cosmologist Katie Mack about the five ways that scientists think the universe could come to an end.
With Nothing to Eat Except Viruses, Some Microbes Thrive
By YASEMIN SAPLAKOGLU
Microbiologists have found that "virovores" — organisms that survive and multiply by eating viruses — might influence the flow of energy through ecosystems.
Good Vibes Our planet reverberates like a bell for days after a major earthquake. Researchers have now used these seismic waves to work out new details in the structure of Earth's inner core, reports Bianca Nogrady for Nature. Seismic measurements previously revealed that the structure of Earth's mantle is more complex than was thought. In 2020, Joshua Sokol wrote for Quanta about the discovery of two giant subterranean continents that are tied to volcanic activity and the evolution of the planet.
Dodo Redo A biotech company wants to resurrect the dodo bird, reports Ewen Callaway for Nature. It plans to edit the genes of the bird's closest living relative, the iridescent-feathered Nicobar pigeon, to match that of the dodo. Even if this method succeeds, however, researchers will only have produced a hybrid rather than a truly resurrected dodo. Last year, Yasemin Saplakoglu explained for Quanta why de-extinction is impossible.
