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, March 10, 2023
Room-Temp Superconductor Discovery Meets With Resistance
Plus: Black hole all-seeing eyes; New modular forms unleashed; Synthetic biology on "The Joy of Why"; AI fairness; Modeling ecosystem vulnerability
Room-Temperature Superconductor Discovery Meets With Resistance
By CHARLIE WOOD & ZACK SAVITSKY
A paper in Nature reports the discovery of a superconductor that operates at room temperatures and near-room pressures. The claim has divided the research community.
By genetically instructing cells to perform tasks that they wouldn't in nature, synthetic biologists can learn deep secrets about how life works. Researcher Michael Elowitz discusses the potential of this field.
Simpler Math Predicts How Close Ecosystems Are to Collapse
By ANNA GIBBS
By replacing thousands of equations with just one, ecology modelers can more accurately assess how close fragile environments are to a disastrous "tipping point."
Lean Machine AI models are growing in complexity at an impressive rate. But is a larger model necessarily smarter? A group of scientists is hoping to trim some of the fat, Anil Ananthaswamy reports for Nature. Last year for Quanta, Mordechai Rorvig wrote about a theoretical justification for having larger neural networks. The proof suggests that scaling up networks beyond their apparent minimum requirements is critical for their success.
On the Scent Scientists are uncovering how animals manage to follow odors through turbulent environments, Dana Mackenzie reports for Knowable Magazine. Scientists have only recently begun to sniff out the biomolecular details of olfaction. In a 2021 Quanta story, Jordana Cepelewicz covered researchers' first detailed glimpse of a smell receptor molecule in action.
