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Adam Frank

Adam Frank is an astrophysicist, author, and broadcaster whose work bridges the cosmic and the human. As Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Rochester, Frank explores the origins of stars, civilisations, and consciousness, asking what our place in the universe reveals about ourselves. A leading voice in astrobiology and the search for technosignatures, he investigates how intelligent life might shape and survive within planetary environments across the cosmos.

Through bestselling books, essays in The New York Times, and as co-founder of NPR’s 13.7: Cosmos & Culture, Frank brings the profound questions of science into everyday conversation, illuminating how cosmic perspective can ground a new planetary wisdom for an age of transformation.

Adam Frank is an astrophysicist, author, and broadcaster whose work bridges the cosmic and the human. As Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Rochester, Frank explores the origins of stars, civilisations, and consciousness, asking what our place in the universe reveals about ourselves. A leading voice in astrobiology and the search for technosignatures, he investigates how intelligent life might shape and survive within planetary environments across the cosmos.

Through bestselling books, essays in The New York Times, and as co-founder of NPR’s 13.7: Cosmos & Culture, Frank brings the profound questions of science into everyday conversation, illuminating how cosmic perspective can ground a new planetary wisdom for an age of transformation.

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Beyond the Universe

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Gravity: The Story So Far

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Is Space-Time Fluid?

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The Riddle of Gravity

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Gravity and the Dark Side of Science

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Don't believe the dark matter hype

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Cosmology in crisis

Searching for the Multiverse

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Is Einstein still right?

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The Philosophical Problems of Cosmology

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Have we detected dark energy?

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Bjørn Ekeberg,Louis Marmet

Escaping cosmology’s failing paradigm

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Emma Curtis Lake

Rewriting the history of the Universe

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The most complex thing in the universe

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The Delusions of Cosmology

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The multiverse under fire

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Dark Matter Doesn't Exist

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Black holes could challenge Relativity

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The Big Bang didn't happen

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James Webb images were made to look beautiful

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Infinity: the question cosmology can't answer

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The Big Bang Bust-Up

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The deep puzzle of the infinite universe

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A new particle won't solve dark matter

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Questioning cosmic inflation

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In defence of dark energy

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There is no free will in Einstein's universe

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