Lawrence M. Krauss

Lawrence M. Krauss, a theoretical physicist & author, is President of the Origins Project Foundation & host of The Origins Podcast. His newest book, The Edge of Knowledge, is out now.

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Campus Puritans Come for an Astronomer—And His Byline

By demanding that morality tests be imposed on scientific journal authorship, Geoff Marcy’s critics are creating a dangerous precedent.

Lawrence M. Krauss

25 May 2023 · 12 min read

The Unbearable Whiteness of Being

The American Physical Society views the existence of White Privilege in physics as being both scientific and not scientific.

Lawrence M. Krauss

5 May 2023 · 5 min read

How Do We Define ‘Life’?

An excerpt from 'The Edge of Knowledge: Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos.'

Lawrence M. Krauss

17 Apr 2023 · 5 min read

Astrobiology: The Rise and Fall of a Nascent Science

Premature claims, distorted results, and ‘decolonizing’ the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

Lawrence M. Krauss

6 Apr 2023 · 12 min read

Words Don’t Matter

We have power over words, not vice versa.

Lawrence M. Krauss

13 Mar 2023 · 6 min read

Artificially Intelligent Offense?

ChatGPT has been programmed to avoid giving accurate information if it may cause offense.

Lawrence M. Krauss

21 Feb 2023 · 11 min read

Anti-Male Bias at the NHMRC

Imposing gender quotas for research funding is counterproductive and sets a dangerous new precedent.

Lawrence M. Krauss

20 Oct 2022 · 4 min read

Fund Science on the Basis of Scientists‘ Work, Not Their Identity

Lawrence M. Krauss

Campus Puritans Come for an Astronomer—And His Byline

The Unbearable Whiteness of Being

How Do We Define ‘Life’?

Words Don’t Matter

Artificially Intelligent Offense?

Anti-Male Bias at the NHMRC

Fund Science on the Basis of Scientists‘ Work, Not Their Identity

An Astronomer Cancels His Own Research—Because the Results Weren’t Popular

Tales From the Gulag

Necessity Is the Mother of Invention, and Has Been for Over 3,500 Years

Whatever It Is, It Ain’t Aliens

In Defense of the Universal Values of Science

Why Climate Science Is Like the Rest of Science

Science Goes Rogue