In this fascinating book MIT's Pere Estupinyà, manages to convey the wonder and fascination of science to all readers.

Review by Adriana López

El ladrón de cerebros / The Brain Snatcher

Author: Pere Estupinyà

Ever wonder what the cold virus actually does in your body? Or what actually happens in your brain when you fall in love? Pere Estupinyà, a lover of science in all its manifestations, spent several years infiltrating the world’s leading laboratories and research centers in order to explain the most important and surprising discoveries of recent times, along with the challenges in 21st century science.

Through entertaining stories, the reader will learn about the most heated debates in neuroscience, cosmology, genetics, human psychology, and climate change. In El ladrón de cerebros, Estupinyà tracks the path of a cold virus, takes a brain scan to see if it can detect his own lies, delves into the frictions between science and religion, explains why women's pupils dilate in full orgasm, discusses why magazines like Science or Nature contain more errors than inferior magazines, will go crazy trying to make you understand what antimatter and quantum entanglement are. And he’ll even ask his hormones to explain why he falls in love.

In this fascinating book about the world of science, Estupinyà, who works at MIT as a Knight Science Journalism Tracker for Latin America, as well as a blogger for El País, manages to convey the wonder and fascination of science to all readers.

Adriana V. López, editor and writer: lopez.adrianav@gmail.com