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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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Within the next few decades, we may well have hard evidence for the existence of alien life on worlds light-years distant from Earth.
Cosmology is unlike other sciences. When our view of the Universe changes, so does our understanding of philosophy and science itself.
A relatively new interpretation of quantum mechanics asks us to reimagine the process of science itself.
Art isn't a side note in human history; it's the main text.
Despite the vast number of planets in the Universe, Earth's specific evolutionary history guarantees that its life forms — including humans — are utterly unique.
Nature may not allow us full access to the weirdness of quantum mechanics.
