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Paul M. Sutter

Paul M. Sutter is a research professor in astrophysics at the Institute for Advanced Computational Science at Stony Brook University and a guest researcher at the Flatiron Institute in New York City. He is the author of Your Place in the Universe: Understanding our Big, Messy Existence.

New Telescopes Will Help Us SETL

Extraterrestrial life doesn’t need to be intelligent to be worth finding.

January 25, 2023

The Remarkable Emptiness of Existence

Early scientists didn’t know it, but we do now: The void in the universe is alive.

January 4, 2023

Top 10 Underrated Astronomy Papers of 2022

There was a lot more to this year than stunning images.

December 21, 2022

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Uncertainty

I now realize Heisenberg and Schrödinger are less like physicists and more like therapists.

November 9, 2022

Why We Need to Study Nothing

The origins of the universe may be hidden in the voids of space.

August 2, 2022

Doctor Strange and the Multiverse in Science

The multiverse of pop culture owes its existence to a testable scientific hypothesis.

May 11, 2022

As Creation Stories Go, the Big Bang Is a Good One

How science is like mythology when it pushes the boundaries of the known.

April 15, 2022