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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The classic picture of Jupiter's great rocky core might be entirely wrong.
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The problem of the electroweak horizon haunts the standard model of cosmology and beckons us to ask how deep a rethink the model may need.
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The standard model of cosmology has a big new problem: Some galaxies seem to be too old.
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How do physicists solve a problem like entropy?
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Cosmologists are largely still in the dark about the forces that drive the Universe.
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We do not need to pause AI research. But we do need a pause on the public release of these tools until we can determine how to deal with them.