Adam Frank

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to astrophysicist Adam Frank about his role as physics and philosophy adviser on Marvel's newest movie, Doctor Strange, which opened last Friday.

It isn't just Elon Musk's telling the world about his Mars visions that matters — our reaction to it matters as well, says astrophysicist Adam Frank.

Do cities destroy nature or are they part of nature? Astrophysicist Adam Frank looks at a new book attempting to answer that question — which he says could be a key to our collective future.

A new book reminds me why the actor has been my comedy hero ever since he started on Saturday Night Live when I was just a wisecracking high school student, says Adam Frank.

The great irony of modern life is that we know more about the universe than those past, but few of us have direct contact with the emotional magnitude of the night sky, says astrophysicist Adam Frank.

It's easy to make claims that the truths of different fields live in a shared space — but backing up those claims with new research and insights will take new research and insight, says Adam Frank.

Looking at the Anthropocene through the lens of astrobiology could help us move on with the planet — so it doesn't move on without us, says physicist Adam Frank.

Few people can really trace the path from basic physics theory all the way up to health diagnostics. Yet we all rely on these machines, and other science, in daily life, says Adam Frank.

You can't see dark matter and dark energy — but, like ghosts in movies, they mess with the things you can see. The difference is that there's no data to show the existence of ghosts, says Adam Frank.

Last month, astronomers announced they found a planet that is four light years away. This is huge news, and we need to pay attention.

Commentator Adam Frank talks with professor Donald Hoffman about Hoffman's big radical idea: Evolution and objective reality have almost nothing to do with each other.

Always new but always building on ground that's already been covered, science and art evolve in similar ways because they are the foundation of culture's imaginative landscape, says Adam Frank.

While author Brad Warner's approach to 13th-century Japanese Zen master Eihei Dogen may be unorthodox, its freshness might be exactly what the doctor ordered, says Adam Frank.

Evolution and culture made us explorers and wanderers and, now, with so much to gain, we should recognize that explicitly and see exactly where our next frontier lies, says astrophysicist Adam Frank.

A coalition of 56 major U.S. nonpartisan organizations has called on all the presidential candidates to address a list of issues rising from science and engineering. Adam Frank takes a look.

All Things Considered asked listeners to ask our resident astrophysicist big questions, so we can give you short answers. Today we explore magnetic fields and explain why they are so powerful on Earth.

You've got science questions — we've got answers! Or our astrophysicist, Adam Frank, does. So ask your big questions, and we'll give you short answers. Today he explores atoms in space.

Beyond the fights and the chases in Ramez Naam's Nexus trilogy, it is an opportunity to consider how technology might move some humans beyond humanity, says astrophysicist Adam Frank.

People who benefit from science daily somehow manage to find a place to simultaneously reject it: Whether climate or vaccines, the same contradiction between words and action arises, says Adam Frank.

The universe gets to run the "life" experiment many times, which means the burden falls on the hyper-pessimists to show why Earth is unique, says Adam Frank, who just published a paper on the topic.