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, 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...
Thursday, October 23, 2025

William Crookes, Unorthodox Scientist

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William Crookes One of the most surprising scientific figures of the second half of the 19th century in England was William Crookes (1832-19...
Thursday, October 16, 2025

Do people with Down Syndrome have a right to life?

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A post  I published in this blog in 2017 ended with this paragraph: Why are human beings conceived with trisomy of chromosome 21 (Down syn...
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