Opinion Essays by Avi Loeb (in reverse chronological order)
*"What Should We Do If Extraterrestrials Show Up?", Scientific American (April 15, 2021)
*"Waiting for the Universe to Change", Scientific American (April 12, 2021)
*"Shooting Stars at the Speed of Light", Scientific American (April 5, 2021)
*"When Did Life First Emerge in the Universe?", Scientific American (April 4, 2021)
*"Scientists are Perpetual Students of Nature", Scientific American (March 30, 2021)
*"Reflections on Our Galactic Neighbors", Kultursymposium, Germany (March 30, 2021)
*"How To Photograph A Possible Alien Artifact", Scientific American (March 22, 2021)
*"Was the Interstellar Object `Oumuamua a Nitrogen Iceberg?", Scientific American (March 19, 2021)
*"To Qualify As `Scientific', Evidence Has to Be Reproducible", Scientific American (March 1, 2021)
*"The Shrapnel that Killed the Dinosaurs", Scientific American (February 16, 2021)
*"Scientific Knowledge is Always Good", Scientific American (February 16, 2021)
*"ET and Arecibo", Pioneer Works (January 27, 2021)
*"Experimental Tests of Theology", Scientific American (January 26, 2021)
*"Message from Our Nearest Star?", Scientific American (January 12, 2020)
*"The Cosmic Dawn of Technology", Scientific American (December 28, 2020)
*"Multi-Messenger SETI", Scientific American (December 22, 2020)
*"Endless Creation Out of Nothing", Scientific American (December 12, 2020)
*"Noah's Spaceship", Scientific American (November 30, 2020)
*"The Scientific Benefits of Social Distancing", Scientific American (November 24, 2020)
*"Our Conversation with the Sky", Pioneer Works (November 22, 2020)
*"The Empty Half of the Glass May Also Be Full", Scientific American (November 14, 2020)
*"Black Holes Are Finally Trending", Scientific American (November 7, 2020)
*"Living Near a White Dwarf", Scientific American (October 30, 2020)
*"Searching for the Atoms of Life", Scientific American (October 20, 2020)
*"Academia After COVID", Scientific American (October 10, 2020)
*"Restoring Confidence in Evidence-Based Science" (October 28, 2020)
*"Life and Fate", Inference (September 30, 2020)
*"Nature's Splendor Exceeds Our Imagination", Scientific American (September 29, 2020)
*"Social Distancing on a Cosmic Scale", Scientific American (September 23, 2020)
*"The Hawking Limit", Scientific American (September 14, 2020)
*"The Dangers of Intellectual Territorialism", Scientific American (August 31, 2020)
*"What if We Could Live for a Million Years?", Scientific American (August 16, 2020)
*"My Recent Encounter with Rocks", Personal Diary (August 12, 2020)
*"A Movie of the Evolving Universe is Potentially Scary", Scientific American (August, 3, 2020)
*"The Power of Scientific Brainstorming", Scientific American (July 23, 2020)
*"Living with Scientific Uncertainty", Scientific American (July 15, 2020)
*"Geometry of the Universe", Astronomy Magazine (July 8, 2020)
*"An Audacious Explanation for Fast Radio Bursts", Scientific American (June 24, 2020)
*"Beware of Theories of Everything", Scientific American (June 9, 2020)
*"Visionary Science Takes More than Just Technical Skills", Scientific American (May 25, 2020)
*"The End of Time Could Be Of Our Own Making", Inference (May 18, 2020)
*"In Search of Naked Singularities", Scientific American (May 3, 2020)
*"A Sobering Astronomical Reminder from COVID-19", Scientific American (April 18, 2020)
*"Why the Pursuit of Scientific Knowledge Will Never End", Scientific American (April 6, 2020)
*"Flattening the COVID-19 Curves", Scientific American (March 17, 2020)
*"Advice for Young Scientists: Be a Generalist", Scientific American (March 16, 2020)
*"Why Should Scientists Mentor Students?", Scientific American (February 25, 2020)
*"What Makes Fast Radio Bursts?", solicited Op-Ed for Fox News (February 19, 2020)
*"Surfing a Supernova", Scientific American (February 3, 2020)
*"Can the Universe Provide Us With the Meaning of Life?", Scientific American (January 21, 2020)
*"The Simple Truth About Physics", Scientific American (January 2, 2020)
*"A Tale of Three Nobels", Scientific American (December 18, 2019)
*"Essential Advice for Fledgling Scientists", Scientific American (December 2, 2019)
*"Space Archaeology", Atmos (November 8, 2019)
*"Did Life from Earth Escape the Solar System Eons Ago?", Scientific American (November 4, 2019)
*"Science is Not About Getting More Likes", Scientific American (October 8, 2019)
*"The Moon as a Fishing Net for Extraterrestrial Life", Scientific American (September 25, 2019)
*"Nothing Persists Except Change Itself", Scientific American (September 6, 2019)
*"Science as a Way of Life", Scientific American (August 14, 2019)
*"Federal Leadership of Future Moonshots", Scientific American (July 16, 2019)
*"It Takes a Village to Declassify an Error Bar", Scientific American (July 3, 2019)
*"What is the One Thing You Would Change About the World?", Harvard Gazette (July 1, 2019)
*"In Search of Green Dwarfs", Scientific American (June 3, 2019)
*"Should Scientists Keep Their Debates Private?", Scientific American (May 14, 2019)
*"`Oumuamua's Cousin?", Scientific American (May 6, 2019)
*"When Lab Experiments Carry Theological Implications", Scientific American (April 22, 2019)
*"How to Keep Scientific Innovation Alive", Scientific American (April 8, 2019)
*"Humanities of the Future", Scientific American (March 4, 2019)
*"Living Near a Supermassive Black Hole", Scientific American (March 11, 2019)
*"Are We Really the Smartest Kid on the Block?", Scientific American (March 4, 2019)
*"Advanced Extraterrestrials as an Approximation to God", Scientific American (January 26, 2019)
*"Our Future in Space Will Echo Our Future on Earth", Scientific American (January 10, 2019)
*"How to Approach the Problem of `Oumuamua", Scientific American (December 19, 2018)
*"Seeking the Truth When the Consensus is Against You", Scientific American (November 9, 2018)
*"On `Oumuamua" (November 5, 2018)
*"Making the Church Taller", Scientific American (October 18, 2018)
*"Searching for Relics of Dead Civilizations", Scientific American (September 27, 2018)
*"Philosophy and Science", Scientific American (September 10, 2018)
*"In Search for Lost Intellectual Treasures", submitted to Project Syndicate (August 23, 2018)
*"The Power of Anomalies", published in Scientific American (August 28, 2018)
*"Our Dialogue With Nature", Scientific American (August 10, 2018).
Background anecdote: "In my concluding remarks at the BHI conference we held at Harvard in May 2018, I recommended boarding a futuristic spacecraft directed at the nearest black hole to experimentally test the validity of string theory near the singularity. Nima Arkani-Hamed commented that he suspects I have an ulterior motive for sending string theorists into a black hole. For the video of this exchange, click here
*"Sailing on Light", Forbes magazine (August 8, 2018)
*"Science is an Infinite-Sum Game", Scientific American (July 31, 2018)
*"Where do ideas come from?", Scientific American (July 23, 2018)
*"Finding Fuel for Our Frigid Cosmic Future", Scientific American (June 19, 2018)
*"Testing Philosophy Through Experiments", Scientific American (June 7, 2018)
*"Maybe We Could See a Singularity After All", Scientific American (May 22, 2018)
*"Making Academia Matter Again", Project Syndicate (April 17, 2018)
*"Escape from Proxima b", Scientific American (April 16, 2018)
*"Renewing the Contract of Academia with Society", Scientific American (February 14, 2018)
*"Are Alien Civilizations Technologically Advanced?" Scientific American (January 8, 2018)
*"Vision for Harvard's Future" (September 5, 2017)
*"The Case for Cosmic Modesty", Scientific American (June 2017)
*"Searching for Life Among the Stars", Pan European Networks (June 2017)
*"Astrophysical Russian Dolls", Nature Astronomy (January 2017)
*"Good Data Are Not Enough", Nature (November 2016)
*"The Infinity Pool", Nature Physics (November 2015)
*"Fostering Talent", Physics World (April 2015)
*"The Lost Donkeys of Science", Project Syndicate (October 2014)
*"Benefits of Diversity", Nature Physics (September 2014)
*"Questions & Answers", Harvard FAS Dean's Annual Report (2014)
*"Thinking Outside the Simulation Box", Nature Physics (July 2013)
*"Fostering the Discoveries We Can't See Coming", PBS (July 2012)
*"Rating Research Risk", Nature (April 2012)
*"The Right Kind of Risk", Nature (September 2010)
*"Autobiographical sketch" (1962-2017)
