Popular Science


Collection of my brief articles on popular science. Most have also been published in Spanish.
Full list at: https://manuelalfonseca.acta.es/docs/papersd.htm.

Manuel Alfonseca

Thursday, September 26, 2019

The limits of quantum computing

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Alan Turing In an interview in a major Spanish newspaper (La Vanguardia) published on July 27, 2019, David Pérez García, a researcher ...
Thursday, September 19, 2019

The optimism of Teilhard de Chardin

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Teilhard de Chardin’s vision of the future is essentially optimistic, perhaps too much. In his book The Phen...
Thursday, September 12, 2019

Anniversaries of space exploration

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Armstrong, Collins & Aldrin - Photo NASA Fifty years after the arrival of man on the Moon, a couple of European sexagenarians remem...
Thursday, September 5, 2019

George Ellis and the multiverse

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George Ellis George Ellis is a South African cosmologist who rose to fame almost half a century ago when he wrote a book together with S...
Thursday, August 29, 2019

What are scientists researching about?

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Plant research in space (NASA) In previous posts I have mentioned some dangers faced by the future of science in the face of the grow...
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Thursday, August 22, 2019

Daring to say “I don’t know”

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I don’t know . It seems quite simple. Why so few people dare to say it? Several years ago, when it became fashionable in popular news...
Thursday, August 15, 2019

Five years in PopulScience

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Albert Einstein This week we celebrate a small anniversary: five years since this blog was created. In this time, 245 posts have been p...
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