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 28, 2023
How Pools of Genetic Diversity Affect a Species’ Fate
Plus: Breaking AI's black box; Infinite proofs for infinite primes; Solar wind traced to its source; New Quanta Science Podcast on Alzheimer's disease
How Pools of Genetic Diversity Affect a Species' Fate
By ANNA FUNK
A new, deeper understanding of how the breeding structure of species affects their genetic diversity is giving conservationists better tools for saving animals.
Tiny Jets on the Sun Power the Colossal Solar Wind
By THEO NICITOPOULOS
A new analysis argues that ubiquitous eruptions in the sun's corona explain the vast flow of charged particles seen streaming out through the solar system.
Schrödinger's Sapphire Researchers have put a piece of sapphire about half as massive as an eyelash into a quantum "Schrödinger's cat" state. It's more than 100 trillion times as massive as any test object in previous experiments, reports Emily Conover for Science News. Physicists want to push at the boundaries of the quantum regime to understand the transition between the microscopic world of quantum mechanics and the macroscopic world of everyday experience. Phil Ball wrote about their efforts for Quanta in 2021.
Free-Floating New research reveals that fish and mammals navigate the world in different ways, reports Kate Golembiewski for The New York Times. Monitored brain activity in goldfish showed that they only keep track of their proximity to boundaries. The navigational systems of humans and other mammals, on the other hand, take on the more sophisticated and comprehensive challenge of building a mental map of their 3D environment. In 2021, Jordana Cepelewicz wrote for Quanta about a new study that showed how rats do it.
