‘Everything there is to know about science’, the book to discover 173 scientific curiosities

Have you ever wondered if there are more stars in the universe or grains of sand on the beaches of the earth? Or how does the time change affect our body? Does the universe smell like something? What relationship do surfers have with science? Can a man walk eleven steps after being dead and headless?

If these questions have piqued your interest, all you need to do is open this book and discover the answers. In this project, renowned physician and popularizer Pedro Gargantilla Madera puts his extensive knowledge at the service of the reader to answer over a hundred questions and scientific curiosities.

And it’s that being scientifically rigorous is not at odds with pleasure.

Pedro Wood Choker He is a physician, writer and scientific communicator. Head of Internal Medicine at El Escorial Hospital and Professor of the History of Medicine at Francisco de Vitoria University.

Regular contributor to RNE radio programs. He writes weekly in the digital science section of the ABC newspaper and in Clio. He is the author of more than twenty books, including Diseases of the Kings of Spain. the Austrians (2005), The diseases of the Bourbons (2007) and Diseases That Changed History (2016), all published in La Esfera de los Libros.

He has participated in documentaries as an expert and worked on the program El ojo clinico on La 2 on TVE.