Adam Frank

There's a deeper post to be written comparing comedy and science jumping off this bit from Louis C.K. — but since we're coming off a holiday weekend, we'll do this in two parts, says Adam Frank.

It's possible that string theory or the multiverse may find strong links with data, but a recent book provides a view of what a truly different philosophical approach would look like, says Adam Frank.

We are all trapped in space — the space of three dimensions. NPR blogger and astrophysicist Adam Frank takes us to the next dimension.

From inventing ways to clean water on large scales, to building the internet, to landing a science lab on Mars, we've been solving problems with big dreams made real for 240 years, says Adam Frank.

One of the things that being an astrophysicist has given Adam Frank is real perspective. You think your day is bad? Your smallness should make you realize it just doesn't matter, since we're such a small speck in the universe.

While Western philosophers relied on reason and logic to source arguments, Buddhists, like Eihei Dogen, attempted to develop refined methods for articulate, focused introspection, says Adam Frank.

Machines don't need to become conscious to rewire our world, they just need to become intelligent enough — and this moment may be coming faster than we are expecting, says astrophysicist Adam Frank.

We think of ourselves as separate, higher beings with concerns above and beyond this mundane physicality; but a few minutes with an ultrasound offers a different perspective, says Adam Frank.

Something radical and truly fascinating has begun — a group is putting in place a "credible" road map to interstellar travel, says astrophysicist Adam Frank.

We are part of something much larger than ourselves — and our ideas about ourselves, says astrophysicist Adam Frank. How can we be sure? Because, without doubt, it is raining all over the universe.

What makes the Kavli HUMAN Project, which will follow 10,000 people over 20 years, so exciting is that it's exactly the kind of approach that can show us if Big Data really works, says Adam Frank.

Being an astrophysicist, I didn't have the slightest clue about the answer, says Adam Frank, but — lucky for us all — 13.7's own Barbara J. King has spent a lot of time studying just this question.

The organized denial of climate change science opened the doors to a very public retreat from the principle that a shared public reality could be the basis for our political debates, says Adam Frank.

This short video, making the rounds on social media, provides some eye opening insights into the distribution of human welfare, says Adam Frank.

The long delay in getting Americans back into orbit on their own power shows how deeply we've neglected a space science and technology effort that was the envy of the world, says Adam Frank.

In some cases, a planet's winds could slowly bleed a world of its chance as a safe haven for life — or the winds could boil the world away, says astrophysicist Adam Frank.

In 13.7 blogger Alva Noë's latest book, he shows that in art, it's our most intimate, lived experience and us as individual world-builders that comes into view, says commentator Adam Frank.

SyFy's The Expanse may be the most important piece of science fiction to appear on the small screen in 10 years, says astrophysicist Adam Frank.

On Aug. 6, 1974, Philippe Petit mesmerized the world by spending 45 minutes a quarter mile above the ground, walking a tightrope strung between the twin towers of the World Trade Center. When he finally came down and was promptly arrested, waiting reporters jammed microphones in his face and ...

I have been sitting in a lot of biophysics talks recently. You'll have to excuse me if you are already working in the biological sciences but, to me, this stuff is crazy.

Today, in particular, I would like to share with you the myosin V motor protein. This ...