Adam Frank
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Rochester, NY, United States
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From Poverty To Stanford, Memoir Tells A Physicist’s Remarkable Tale
A Quantum Life is an important book to help understand the institutional hurdles that have kept science mostly white and male — and how the fire of inquiry can take root in a heart and lift it up. → Read More
From Poverty To Stanford, Memoir Tells A Physicist's Remarkable Tale
A Quantum Life is an important book to help understand the institutional hurdles that have kept science mostly white and male — and how the fire of inquiry can take root in a heart and lift it up. → Read More
'Helgoland' Offers A New Way To Understand The World, And Our Place In It
Carlo Rovelli writes that quantum mechanics tells us reality is a net of interactions where there are no things, only relationships; nothing has properties until it interacts with something else. → Read More
Author John Green Explores How To Live In Uncertainty In 'The Anthropocene Reviewed'
The author of best-seller The Fault In Our Stars uses humor, wisdom and a keen sense of connections to offer guidance — as he reviews how humans are reshaping Earth. → Read More
'Under A White Sky' Examines What It Might Take For Humans To Continue To Exist
Elizabeth Kolbert makes clear how far we already are from a world of undisturbed, balanced nature — and how far we must go to find a new balance for the planet's future, one that still includes us. → Read More
'Wild Minds' Traces The Origins Of Animation — From Blackton And McCay To Disney
Author Reid Mitenbuler's real target is a quintessentially American story of daring ambition, personal re-invention, and the eternal tug-of-war of between art and business. → Read More
Playing 'Death Stranding,' Even In Isolation, You're Not Alone
In Hideo Kojima's famously strange new game, you're often alone, trekking across deserted post-apocalyptic America. But you're also not alone, as you find clues and connections left by other players. → Read More
Playing 'Death Stranding,' Even In Isolation, You're Not Alone
In Hideo Kojima's famously strange new game, you're often alone, trekking across deserted post-apocalyptic America. But you're also not alone, as you find clues and connections left by other players. → Read More
Coronavirus and climate change: The pandemic is a fire drill for our planet's future
Climate change will mean one emergency after another, year after year, as heat waves, floods, fire and storms blow cascades of failures through our systems. → Read More
As The 50th Anniversary Of Apollo 11 Nears, New Books Highlight The Mission's Legacy
These works make apparent how singular an achievement America's moon landing was — and show that half a century later we're still grappling to understand its long-term meaning. → Read More
'Einstein's Unfinished Revolution' Looks At The Quantum-Physics-And-Reality Problem
Does reality need realism? If that seems like a weird question to you, consider the fact that it's the one most pressing for physicists and for their → Read More
'Einstein's Unfinished Revolution' Looks At The Quantum-Physics-And-Reality Problem
A century after the birth of quantum mechanics, no one is sure what it is telling us about the nature of reality — and Lee Smolin's book adds to a stream of excellent works on the topic. → Read More
Here's Why Some Mess Is Not Always A Bad Thing
Does mess drive you nuts? Astrophysicist Adam Frank says to think of it as showing off — all proteins need mess to do their own work. → Read More
New Climate Books Stress We Are Already Far Down The Road To A Different Earth
David Wallace-Wells' The Uninhabitable Earth and Nathaniel Rich's Losing Earth offer valuable perspectives on climate change — if we're committed to being adult enough to face the future. → Read More
New Climate Books Stress We Are Already Far Down The Road To A Different Earth
David Wallace-Wells' The Uninhabitable Earth and Nathaniel Rich's Losing Earth offer valuable perspectives on climate change — if we're committed to being adult enough to face the future. → Read More
Our next frontier: Exploring alien life
We are in the midst of a profound shift in our thinking about intelligent beings elsewhere in the galaxy. The search for aliens is no longer science fiction – it’s science → Read More
'Team Human' Stresses That The Future Lies In Connection And Cooperation
Douglas Rushkoff's knowledge of digital technology shines in his new book, horrifying us with the capacities of the machines we've built — and the ways they have been used against us. → Read More
Beyond the Goldilocks Zone
The meaning—and range—of “habitable” goes much farther than we once thought. → Read More
Why Venus Remains A 'Mysterious Planet'
Venus is getting some rare attention, thanks to NASA’s Parker Solar Probe. It will swing by the planet on its way to study the sun’s atmosphere. Here & → Read More
Light of the Stars
NPR coverage of Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth by Adam Frank. News, author interviews, critics' picks and more. → Read More