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If trends continue, "the search for intelligence in the universe may finally escape the giggle-factor," writes 蘑菇传媒 astrophysicist Adam Frank in a Washington Post op-ed.

The University is the host institution for a NSF-funded national collaboration to explore 鈥榬evolutionary states of matter.鈥�

Like infectious disease researchers, climate change scientists have warned for decades that we are unprepared. Rochester astrophysicist Adam Frank says, 鈥淚t鈥檚 time to wake up.鈥�

The 蘑菇传媒 astrophysicist recently received the American Physical Society鈥檚 2020聽Joseph A. Burton Forum Award and his latest book Light of the Stars was awarded the 2019 Phi Beta Kappa Award for Science.

Three of eight national research grants recently awarded by the Department of Energy were given to researchers at the URochester, which is home to the largest university-based DOE research program in the nation.

鈥淭here鈥檚 so much to look at, and we鈥檝e done so little of it so far,鈥� Rochester professor of astrophysics Adam Frank told NPR鈥檚 All Things Considered.

Does the universe contain planets with truly sustainable civilizations? Or does every civilization that may have arisen in the cosmos last only a few centuries before it falls to the climate change it triggers? Rochester astrophysicist Adam Frank and his collaborators have developed a mathematical model to illustrate how a technologically advanced population and its planet might develop together, putting climate change in a cosmic context.

Imagine if, many millions of years ago, dinosaurs drove cars through cities of mile-high buildings. A preposterous idea, right? In a compelling thought experiment, professor of physics and astronomy Adam Frank and director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies Gavin Schmidt wonder how we would truly know if there were a past civilization so advanced that it left little or no trace of its impact on the planet.

For more than 50 years, the Kardashev scale has been the gold standard for classifying hypothetical "exo-civilizations" by their ability to harness energy. A team of researchers led by Rochester astrophysicist Adam Frank have devised a new system that takes into account the impacts of that energy use.

In an op-ed for the New York Times, Professor Adam Frank makes the case for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's role in earth-centric science. 鈥淲ithout NASA, climate research worldwide would be hobbled,鈥� he writes.