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, December 15, 2023
New Cell Atlases Reveal Untold Variety in the Brain and Beyond
Plus: Extended gamma-ray bursts prompt questions; Mysterious Markov numbers; Cryptography algorithm get an upgrade
New Cell Atlases Reveal Untold Variety in the Brain and Body
By YASEMIN SAPLAKOGLU
Recent efforts to map every cell in the human body have researchers floored by unfathomable diversity, with many thousands of subtly different types of cells in the human brain alone.
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Extra-Long Blasts Challenge Our Theories of Cosmic Cataclysms
By CHARLIE WOOD
In less than half the duration of a pop song, gamma-ray bursts can emit about as much energy as our sun produces over billions of years. Recent observations are forcing astronomers to rethink their best theories of what might cause the bursts.
A Triplet Tree Forms One of the Most Beautiful Structures in Math
By ANNA KRAMER and KONSTANTIN KAKAES
The Markov numbers reveal the secrets of irrational numbers and the patterns of the Fibonacci sequence. But there's one question about them that has resisted proof for over a century.
Two researchers have improved a well-known technique for lattice basis reduction, opening up new avenues for practical experiments in cryptography and mathematics.
