Adam Frank is the Helen F. and Fred H. Gowen Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Rochester and a winner of the Carl Sagan Medal. He is the author of The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience (MIT Press, 2025) and Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth (W. W. Norton & Company, 2018). He is a contributor to the Observatory.
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