«An exciting journey like you have never experienced before to the complex universe of science, the miseries and greatness that it hides in its back room and the perception, sometimes unreal (imprecise), that society has of it and its protagonists. Sabadell undresses them and puts them in front of the mirror of reality ».
Enrique Coperías, director of Muy Interesante magazine

«Sabadell has slipped into the back room of science and mercilessly tells us about all the miseries of scientific work. Reading this book is an exercise in humility for the researcher and a revelation for one who still believed that science was all honor and glory in pursuit of the common good. It will generate millions of "offended", but it is a necessary exercise in transparency in the not always well lit scientific world. This is a book that goes beyond the scientific field, delves into the nature of human beings including, of course, those of us who are dedicated to science.
Santiago Merino, director of the National Museum of Natural Sciences

«A necessary book to understand the other side of scientific research, how it works, behind the scenes, away from the spotlights of the stage. When you read it you will not look at science as before.
Gema Delicado, head of the Scientific Culture Unit of the National Institute of Aerospace Technology (INTA)

«A stimulating journey through the hidden side of science. It grabs you from the first page and leaves you with the need for the author to tell us more ».
Luis Larrodera, radio and television presenter

★The book won the most prestigious award for scientific dissemination in Spain Prismas Awards for popular science 2019 - unpublished Works category!
★New work by two-time Prismas Awards winner, winner of Professional Excellence Award, doctorate in Theoretical Physics, Miguel Ángel Sabadell!
★Gema Delicado, head of the Scientific Culture Unit of the National Institute of Aerospace Technology (INTA) and Santiago Merino, director of the National Museum of Natural Sciences,jointly recommended!
★A book of in-depth scientific research reveals its complexity and exposes the light and shadow behind the tremendous progress of mankind in science.

Finding a book that tells the ins and outs of scientific research is not easy, and even less one that brings us closer to the less friendly part. Science has its chiaroscuro, its skeletons locked in the closet, and it is good that they know each other; because if we don't we run the risk that it will become something similar to the oracle of Delphi, an entity that is asked and gives the answer that he thinks we need to know. It is essential to know the faces of that polyhedron that is science, although some teach us things that we do not like.
This is the reason for this book: to show what happens in the back room, away from the window where everything is beautiful and good. Through its reading we will see science not with the eyes of a child marveling at the fireworks show, but with those of an adult who also discovers the life of the pyrotechnician.

Miguel Ángel Sabadell has a degree in Astrophysics from the Complutense University of Madrid and a doctorate in Theoretical Physics from the University of Zaragoza. He is currently the science editor of Muy Interesante, the third best-selling magazine in Spain. He has been an advisor to the Councilor for Science, Technology and University of the Government of Aragon, head of scientific dissemination at the Astrobiology Center and one of the experts of the ESA History Project of the European Space Agency. He has also been an advisor to the Spanish Pavilion at Expo 2008 in Zaragoza and to the company Empty S.L. in the museographic realization of the Museum of Human Evolution (Burgos). Among other awards, he has received the 2010 Professional Excellence Award from the Official College of Physicists, and twice the Prismas Awards for popular science, the most prestigious award for scientific dissemination in Spain.