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 21, 2023
A New Kind of Symmetry Shakes Up Physics
Plus: Math proof resembles 'Minesweeper'; eDNA on Everest; Why the brain and body are crisscrossed; Infinity on The Joy of Why
The Number 15 Describes the Secret Limit of an Infinite Grid
By KEVIN HARTNETT
With computer muscle and clever simplification, a grad student and his adviser solved a packing coloring problem that has kept mathematicians busy for two decades.
She Tracks the DNA of Elusive Species That Hide in Harsh Places
By RACHEL CROWELL; Video by CHRISTOPHER W. YOUNG
On Mount Everest and in the Peruvian Andes, Tracie Seimon uses DNA to study how species and ecosystems respond to climate change, pathogens and other influences.
Why the Brain's Connections to the Body Are Crisscrossed
By R. DOUGLAS FIELDS
In all bilaterally symmetrical animals, nerves cross from one side of the body to the opposite side of the brain. There's no known biological reason for it, but geometry points to an answer.
All infinities go on forever, so how is it possible for some infinities to be larger than others? The mathematician Justin Moore discusses the mysteries of infinity with Steven Strogatz.
Jellyfish Have a 'Cobweb of Neurons' The invertebrates called comb jellies have a nervous system that's so fundamentally different from that of other animals, scientists now believe that their brains evolved separately from the brains of other animals, Jake Buehler reports for Science News. New research reveals that rather than being interconnected by synapses, a comb jelly's neurons are directly fused together. Scientists have long suspected that the comb jellies evolved their nervous system independently: Emily Singer reported for Quanta on preliminary evidence for it in 2015.
New Methods for Spotting Exoplanets By combining two different exoplanet-search techniques, astronomers have discovered a new planet around another star — a giant world designated HIP 99770 b, reports Nola Taylor Tillman for Scientific American. As astronomers invent new ways to hunt for exoplanets, planets that have wider ranges of masses and of orbital distances from their suns become ripe for discovery. In 2020, Nola Taylor Tillman wrote for Quanta about a novel technique for detecting the auroras around giant planets.
