Adam Frank

Adam Frank

Astrophysicist

adam frank

Adam Frank is a professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester and a leading expert on the final stages of evolution for stars like the sun. Frank's computational research group at the University of Rochester has developed advanced supercomputer tools for studying how stars form and how they die. A self-described “evangelist of science," he is the author of four books and the co-founder of 13.8, where he explores the beauty and power of science in culture with physicist Marcelo Gleiser.

dune
Tighten your ‘thopter seatbelts and get those worm-hooks ready: we're going to unpack the hype surrounding Dune, both the book and the movie.
clarke's laws
Technology has advanced at a blinding pace in the past 150 years. That won’t always happen.
buddha baseball
The book Buddha Takes the Mound delivers an engaging and sophisticated account of Buddhism’s worldview through the prism of baseball.
scientific consensus
Nebulae are beautiful, but so is the process of science.
Foundation
Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" series helped inspire the field of social physics, which uses math to understand crowd behavior.
existential threat
Civilization is facing an existential threat from climate change. Will we humans make it? Does anyone in the universe make it?