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Adam Frank
Astrophysicist
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.
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Reductionism is a successful way to explain the universe, but it cannot replace experience. This is part of the mystery of life.
After 100 million nights of people asking, "What are those twinkly lights?" it is pretty remarkable that we happen to live in one of the first generations that actually knows the answer.
Philosophers and scientists spent millennia arguing about the nature of light. It turned out to be stranger than anyone imagined.
The world is full of great mysteries. This is one of them.
How can we understand mysterious planets like Jupiter? Use giant lasers!
Does history have a grand narrative, or is it just a random walk to no place in particular? And is the world as we know it about to change?
When Olympic athletes perform dazzling feats of athletic prowess, they are using the same principles of physics that gave birth to stars and planets.