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, June 30, 2023
A New Map of the Universe, Painted with Cosmic Neutrinos
Plus: Huge gravitational waves; New insights into causes of species diversity; What jellyfish can teach about fluid dynamics; Transcendent math
A New Map of the Universe, Painted With Cosmic Neutrinos
By THOMAS LEWTON
Physicists finally know where at least some of these high-energy particles come from, which helps make the neutrinos useful for exploring fundamental physics.
An Enormous Gravity 'Hum' Moves Through the Universe
By JONATHAN O'CALLAGHAN
Astronomers have found a background din of exceptionally long-wavelength gravitational waves pervading the cosmos. The cause? Probably supermassive black hole collisions, but more exotic options can't be ruled out.
The Key to Species Diversity May Be in Their Similarities
By VERONIQUE GREENWOOD
Scientists are intrigued by forests where the biodiversity is far higher than niche theories of ecology say it should be. New findings show that similarities in the life histories of organisms may explain the discrepancy.
Jellyfish and other aquatic creatures embody solutions to diverse problems in engineering, medicine and mathematics. John Dabiri, a fluid dynamics expert, talks with Steven Strogatz about what jellyfish can teach us about going with the flow.
The vast majority of real and complex numbers are transcendental. Yet, despite their abundance, these numbers are exceedingly difficult to find, and it was once not obvious that they should even exist.
Progress on Human Model Embryos In a study published this week in Nature, a team led by Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, a biologist at the University of Cambridge, claims to have produced human embryo models that are equivalent to a normal 14-day-old embryo. In an article published earlier this month in Quanta, Philip Ball described the state of this rapidly advancing area of research and its associated ethical challenges.
Dark Energy's Bright Future Set to launch into orbit next month, the Euclid telescope will precisely measure the dark energy constant and — physicists hope — will reveal the origin of the mysterious force, reports Daniel Clery for Science Magazine. The Euclid satellite will take billions of images of galaxies to give Valeria Pettorino and other cosmologists a better understanding of the evolution of the universe. In 2018, Siobhan Roberts spoke with Pettorino for Quanta about what she hopes the new data will reveal about dark energy.
