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, December 11, 2025

The worldview of Louis Pasteur

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Louis Pasteur Louis Pasteur was, without a doubt, one of the greatest scientists of the 19th century. His scientific work was immense. Amon...
Thursday, December 4, 2025

Science and hypothesis

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Henri Poincaré As a scientist, Henri Poincaré was a mathematician who worked in many fields of that science, both theoretical and applied, ...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

The origins of man

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The title of this post is similar to the title of a work by Charles Darwin,  The descent of Man ,  his second most famous, although it can...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

The Best Nobel Prize Winners in Physics of the 21st Century

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Matin Durrani, writing in Physics World , analyzes the 25 Nobel Prizes awarded during the 21st century and selects those that he believes to...
Thursday, November 13, 2025

Sight for the Blind?

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Blindness is one of the most terrible conditions that human beings can experience, since those of us who can see depend on sight for almost ...
Thursday, November 6, 2025

Christianity and Anti-Christianity in Fantasy and Science Fiction

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A new book of mine has just been released with the same title as this post. It was published in Spanish by CEU Ediciones, and in English b...
Thursday, October 30, 2025

127 Years of The War of the Worlds

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In October 30, 1988, the Sunday supplement of La Vanguardia (a major Spanish newspaper) published an article I had written, commemorating th...
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