Marcelo Gleiser

Marcelo Gleiser

Theoretical Physicist

Marcelo Gleiser

Marcelo Gleiser is a professor of natural philosophy, physics, and astronomy at Dartmouth College. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a recipient of the Presidential Faculty Fellows Award from the White House and NSF, and was awarded the 2019 Templeton Prize. Gleiser has authored five books and is the co-founder of 13.8, where he writes about science and culture with physicist Adam Frank.

Why I put my body through such grueling tests of endurance.
By wiping out 1 million species, we are hastening our own extinction.
Why the origin of the universe teaches us humility.
You can't do pure science independent of human experience.
The present? Blink and you'll miss it. And other musings on time.
Scientists are highly skeptical, but such “cosmic wanderlust" isn't a bad thing.
Why we must build large particle accelerators.
Science nails the coffin of determinism shut. Maybe.
Some experts say there's no such thing. I choose to believe there likely is.
Digging deeper into the mystery of the brain, soul, and consciousness.
Your new year's resolutions should benefit not just yourself, but the whole planet.
Was it a real thing? And the Wise Men? Or are they just myths?
The NASA probe has ventured beyond our solar system.
The Mars landing is a reminder that we never know what—or whom—we might discover out there.
A new book tells the very old story in a fun way for a younger generation.
To explain the origin of everything, science needs to explain itself.
Chances are we have neighbors somewhere in the Milky Way.
When science and ethics collide.
Are we standing on the brink of Mutually Assured Destruction?