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.

Superposition, entanglement, qubits, and Google's big announcement.
Colonizing the Red Planet isn't a bad idea in theory. But . . .
We're bored, and we've lost our ability to be awestruck and amazed. Let's fix that.
* Well, hold on a minute. Those claims are debatable.
Is it time to take the idea of panspermia more seriously?
The collapse of Theranos reminds us that in science, facts have the last word.
When we send messages to the stars, just what are we getting ourselves into?