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.

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Human civilization has always survived periods of change. Will our rapidly evolving technological era be an exception to the rule?
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Big Think columnist Adam Frank makes the case for why the 2023 video game Alan Wake 2 is a boundary-pushing piece of art.
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Explore how QBism reframes science by placing the observer at the heart of quantum reality.
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The answer is set to change in the year 2113, a recent estimate suggests.
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Fire was crucial to the evolution of human technology. That's why alien species stuck in the "oxygen bottleneck" may be forever primitive.
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These theoretical megastructures represent one way an advanced civilization might harvest energy from stars.
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Looking back on our planet's early history offers a new (and less crazy) meaning for the idea of a "flat Earth."