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, April 14, 2023
A New Approach to Computation Reimagines AI
Plus: Asgard cells hint at origin of life; Well-rounded electrons; Subspace designs in vector space; New Quanta Science Podcast
Primitive Asgard Cells Show Life on the Brink of Complexity
By JOSHUA SOKOL
As researchers race to cultivate more of them, the intriguing cells now growing in labs give us our best look at what the forerunners of all complex life were like.
Mathematicians Find Hidden Structure in a Common Type of Space
By JORDANA CEPELEWICZ
In 50 years of searching, mathematicians found only one example of a "subspace design" that fit their criteria. A new proof reveals that there are infinitely more out there.
New Image of M87 Black Hole The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration has released a new image of the black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy, Jennifer Ouellette reports for Ars Technica. The new image is a more detailed version of one released in 2019 — the first glimpse ever of any black hole. At the time, astrophysicist Janna Levin wrote for Quanta about what that image meant to her and her field.
Eye Cite Since Darwin, biologists have wondered how evolution could drive the development of complex, intricate organs such as the eye. New research suggests that a key gene stolen from bacteria might have played a role in accelerating the eye's evolution, reports Elizabeth Pennisi for Science Magazine. Some lines of evidence suggest that the evolution of complexity can often be almost inevitable, even arising in the absence of natural selection. In 2013, Carl Zimmer wrote for Quanta about this "zero-force" evolutionary law.
