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Marcelo Gleiser
Theoretical Physicist
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.
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13.8 columnist Marcelo Gleiser reflects on his recent voyage to Earth's last wild continent.
In 1924, Edwin Hubble found proof that the Milky Way isn't the only galaxy in the Universe.
Millennia ago, philosophers like Anaximander grasped that nature is the ultimate recycler.
From how life emerged on Earth to why we dream, these unanswered questions continue to perplex scientists.
Astronomers have discovered more than 5,000 confirmed exoplanets — very few of which resemble Earth.
Our intuitive understanding of time is very different from a physicist's understanding of time. How do we reconcile these views?
Two of the answers add a dimension to physics that doesn’t belong there. Maybe we could call it "astrotheology."