When, in a wave of enthusiasm, Mark Zuckerberg changed the name of his company from Facebook to Meta, the term metaverse became fashionable. The company’s latest developments could indicate that the huge investment is bearing some fruit. However, Jesús Zamora Bonilla argues in No metaverse in sight (1) that the promises of the metaverse are, ontologically, impossible if not improbable.
Using the strength and enthusiasm of a lot of amateurs can pay off in something as fragile as archaeology. Assessing the quality of citizen science in archeology
There are jobs that will be replaced by artificial intelligence, even creative ones. The writer, a cartoon by TILKUT.
One way to verify that axions are the particles that make up dark matter is through axionic excitations in axionic insulators. The people at DIPC have laid the theoretical foundations to create an axionic insulator in a photonic crystal: A photonic axion insulator in a 3D photonic crystal
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Chemical. I work at Euskampus Fundazioa with the Chair of Scientific Culture of the UPV/EHU, for which I edit the Notebook of Scientific Culture and Mapping Ignorance. I write things for the Donostia International Physics Center and the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics.
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