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IN THE NEWS:

*Space-X Satellites As a Risk to Astronomy, Salon magazine (November 12, 2019).

*Searching for Life in Deep Space, Long Now Foundation (December 2, 2019).

*Did Life from Earth Escape the Solar System Eons Ago?, Scientific American (November 4, 2019).

*Are We Alone?, Public Lecture at the Jefferson Society (page 4 in linked brochure) (November 1, 2019).

*Reading Amos Oz Through Many Eyes, Panel Discussion, Harvard University (October 30, 2019).

*Discovery of a New Dwarf Planet, Salon.com (October 29, 2019).

*Comets and Interstellar Objects Could Be Exporting Life, Daily Galaxy (October 19, 2019).

*Habitable Planets Around Black Holes, Daily Galaxy (October 11, 2019).

*The Next Big Media Pitch Should Be About Science, Inside Sources (October 10, 2019).

*Science Is Not About Getting More "Likes", Scientific American (October 8, 2019).

*The Atlantic Festival: "Beyond Science: Exploring the Unknown", Panel discussion (September 26, 2019).

*The Atlantic Festival: "Beyond Science: Exploring the Unknown", Q&A (September 26, 2019).

*The Atlantic Festival: "Beyond Science", Video segment from panel discussion (clip 1) (September 26, 2019).

*The Atlantic Festival: "Beyond Science", Video segment from panel discussion (clip 2) (September 26, 2019).

*The Atlantic Festival: "Beyond Science", Video segment from panel discussion (clip 3) (September 26, 2019).

*The Moon as a Fishing Net for Extraterrestrial Life, Scientific American (September 25, 2019).

*Interstellar Comet Borisov, Space.com (September 20, 2019).

*Questions for Smart People, Podcast (September 16, 2019).

*Interstellar Comet, accepted for publication in RNAAS (September 16, 2019).

*Einstein and Black Holes, Public Lecture (September 11, 2019).

*Fermi's Paradox, Grapevine (September 10, 2019).

*The Moon as a Fishing Net for Extraterrestrial Life, Scientific American (September 8, 2019).

*Nothing Persists, Scientific American (September 6, 2019).

*Interstellar Meteors, Space.Com (August 30, 2019).

*Monitoring the Moon for Interstellar Impacts, Universe Today (August 28, 2019).

*TMT Update, Associated Press (August 25, 2019).

*Airless Alien Planet, Scientific American (August 19, 2019).

*Stardust in Antarctic Snow, Inside Science (August 16, 2019).

*Lecture on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life, Jefferson Educational Society (November 1, 2019).

*Nothing Persists Except Change Itself, Scientific American (August 16, 2019).

*The Quest to Unlock the Secrets of the Baby Universe, Nature Magazine (August 14, 2019).

*Science as a Way of Life, Scientific American (August 14, 2019).

*Einstein and Black Holes, Lecture at Harvard (September 11, 2019).

*Worldwide ranking of the Harvard Astronomy department, CWUR (August 7, 2019).

*Extraterrestrial Life, Boston Museum of Science (October 16, 2019).

*Search for Life, New Scientist Live, London (October 12, 2019).

*Space Exploration, Coolidge Corner Theater, Brookline (September 9, 2019).

*Answers to Five Questions, American Enterprise Institute (July 31, 2019).

*Alien Intelligence, Robert Kuhn, Closer to Truth (July 29, 2019).

*Life on Planets in Extreme Environments, James Pethokoukis, The National Interest (July 27, 2019).

*Why America Shouldn't Stop and the Moon or Mars, James Pethokoukis, The National Interest (July 22, 2019).

*Scientific Significance of the Moon, Public lecture in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing, Yellow Barn, Vermont (July 20, 2019).

*Next Space Frontier, Profile interview in Times of Israel (July 19, 2019).

*Reaching the Stars, Beobachter magazine (in German) (July 19, 2019).

*Direct Collapse Black Holes, Wired Magazine (July 18, 2019).

*Search for Life, Podcast with Jim Pethokoukis (July 18, 2019).

*Federal Funding of Future Moonshots, Scientific American (July 16, 2019).

*Black Holes and Search for Life, "Matty in the Morning", Kiss 108FM Radio (July 16, 2019).

*"Spreading Seeds of Life", Harvard Gazette (July 8, 2019).

*"It Takes a Village to Declassify an Error Bar", Scientific American (July 3, 2019).

*"Fast Radio Bursts and SETI", Wired (July 3, 2019).

*"Big Ideas in Federal Funding", Universe Today (July 2, 2019).

*"Searching for Life", Undark (July 1, 2019).

*"One Thing to Change in the World?", Harvard Gazette (June 28, 2019).

*"Q&A Video", Mission2Mars Academy (June 24, 2019).

*"Meeting with Nieman Fellows", Harvard University (June 20, 2019).

*"Extraterrestrial Artifacts", Metro, UK (June 12, 2019).

*"In Search of Green Dwarfs", Scientific American (June 3, 2019).

*Decadal Plans (in hebrew), Ha'aretz (May 30, 2019).

*The World (TV Interview, starting at time tag 14:00), with Jesse Ventura (May 29, 2019).

*GZero World (TV Interview): Part I, with Ian Bremmer, PBS (May 25, 2019).

*GZero World (TV Interview): Part II, with Ian Bremmer, PBS (May 25, 2019).

*Black Holes, News Radio with David Gornoski, Orlando (May 22, 2019).

*"Further Realms: Are We Alone?", Harvard Crimson (May 20, 2019).

*"Black Holes and Insterstellar Visitors", Podcast, The Bob Murphy Show (May 17, 2019).

*Extraterrestrial Life, Q&A with Tonya Hall, ZDNet (May 15, 2019).

*"Should Scientists Keep Their Debates Private?", Scientific American (May 14, 2019).

*`Oumuamua's Cousin?, Scientific American (May 6, 2019).

*`Oumuamua gifts, Scientific American (May 6, 2019).

*"Interstellar Meteor", Harvard Crimson (April 29, 2019).

*"Announcement of Keynote Lecture at New Scientist Live, London", Scientific American (April 25, 2019).

*"Did a Meteor from Another Star Srike the Earth in 2014?", Scientific American (April 23, 2019).

*"When Laboratory Experiments Carry Theological Implications", Scientific American (April 22, 2019).

*Before the Big Bang, Harvard Gazette (April 18, 2019).

*Meteor from Another System, CNN (April 17, 2019).

*Interstellar Meteor, National Geographic (April 16, 2019).

*First Interstellar Meteor, Newsweek (April 16, 2019).

*Busy Week, Grapevine (April 16, 2019).

*Discovery of a Meteor of Interstellar Origin, arXiv (April 15, 2019).

*Implications of the M87 Image, Inverse (April 12, 2019).

*Looking Into Nothing, der Spiegel Cover Story (April 12, 2019).

*First Theoretical Prediction of the Black Hole Image in M87, The Astrophysical Journal (April 11, 2019).

*Harvard Scientists Help Capture the First Ever Black Hole Image, Harvard Crimson (April 10, 2019).

*What is a Black Hole Event Horizon?, Space.com (April 9, 2019).

*Gravitational Wave Astronomy, Discover (April 8, 2019).

*How to Keep Scientific Innovation Alive, Scientific American (April 8, 2019).

*Nanocrafts to Alpha-Centauri, SciTech Europa (April 4, 2019).

*Science or Science Fiction, Boston Globe (April 3, 2019).

*Q&A, Salom magazine, Turkey (April 3, 2019).

*"Alien Civilizations", Lasse Biornstad, Oslo (in Norwegien) (March 31, 2019).

*"Asteroid Explosion Over Russia", The CATS Roundtable (March 31, 2019).

*"What Happened Before the Big Bang?", Press Release (March 25, 2019).

*"The Humanities and the Future", Scientific American (March 22, 2019).

*"Extraterrestrial Life", Svein Rosseland Prize Lecture, University of Oslo (March 21, 2019).

*More on `Oumuamua, Lee Billings, Scientific American (March 21, 2019).

*Oumuamua, Salom, Turkey (March 21, 2019).

*Protecting Scientific Innovation from Social Pressure, accepted for publication (March 18, 2019).

*Reaching for the Stars, SciTech Europa Quarterly (March 15, 2019).

*Profile in French, Le Ze'Phir Magazine (March 15, 2019).

*Profile, Hebrew University Newsletter (March 15, 2019).

*Living Near a Supermassive Black Hole, Scientific American (March 11, 2019).

*Future of the Universe, Spark Dialogue (March 5, 2019).

*Future of Liberal Arts, accepted for publication (March 4, 2019).

*"Are We Really the Smartest Kid on the Block?", Scientific American (March 4, 2019).

*Anomalies on the Sky, CBS Chronicle (March 4, 2019).

*Profile, La Nacion, Argentina (March 3, 2019).

*Religious Implications of Oumuamua, First Source (in Hebrew; March 3, 2019)

*Radio interview, Mary-Jane Pop, Sacramento (February 25, 2019).

*"Buzz Aldrin's footprint on the Moon", The Grapevine (February 22, 2019).

*"Save the World: Avi Loeb", Republik (in German) (February 22, 2019).

*"Exciting Frontiers in Space Research", Stephen Ibaraki, Association for Computer Machinery (February 19, 2019).

*"Life Around Black Holes", accepted for publication (February 18, 2019).

*"Be Kind to Extraterrestrials", Scientific American (February 15, 2019).

*"What is a Black Hole?", Science Daily (February 14, 2019).

*"Evening News on PBS", Jim Braude, WGBH (February 13, 2019).

*"CBS Report", Marissa Bodnar, CBS (February 15, 2019).

*"The Ultimate Questions", Closer to Truth (February 11, 2019).

*"Conversation", Technikart (in French) (February 11, 2019).

*"Alien Probe?", Wall Street Journal (February 8, 2019).

*"Are we alone in the universe?", Michael Smerconish, CNN (February 9, 2019).

*"Testing Cosmic Inflation", Harvard Crimson (February 8, 2019).

*"Poll Results", Michael Smerconish, Twitter (February 8, 2019).

*"Ideas", Boston Globe (February 7, 2019).

*"We Might Not Be Alone", NBC Boston (February 6, 2019).

*"Oumuamua", The View, ABC (February 6, 2019).

*"Cloud of Dust?", video by Fox News (February 5, 2019).

*"Getting Personal", by Professor Steven Tingay in Newsweek (February 5, 2019).

*"Imaging Black Holes", Salon (February 4, 2019).

*"Aliens Among Us", Washington Post (February 4, 2019).

*"Ask Me Anything", Reddit (February 1, 2019).

*"Cover Story", XLSemanal (February 1, 2019).

*"Fermi's Paradox", Event Horizon (January 31, 2019).

*"Science and Fiction", NPR Interview (January 30, 2019).

*"Advanced Extraterrestrials as an Approximation to God", Scientific American (January 26, 2019).

*"The `Oumuamua Legacy", Scientific American (January 25, 2019).

*"Mainstreaming SETI", Filling Space (January 25, 2019).

*Greetings from Outer Space (in French)", Ulyces (January 25, 2019).

*Between the Rock and Deep Space", NPR (January 25, 2019).

*"The Strangeness of Black Holes", Nautilus (January 23, 2019).

*"Science", The Atlantic (January 23, 2019).

*"Q&A Interview about Space News", CATS Roundtable Podcast (January 20, 2019).

*"Geometry of `Oumuamua Could be More Extreme than Previously Inferred", Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society (January 18, 2019).

*"Have Aliens Found Us?", The New Yorker (January 16, 2019).

*"Astronomers Discover Most Distant Lensed Quasar", Sky & Telescope (January 16, 2019).

*"Future Study of Interstellar Objects", Centauri Dreams (January 15, 2019).

*"Embracing Nature from Walden Pond to Extraterretrial Ponds", (January 14, 2019).

*"Interstellar Object", Israeli TV, Channel 10 (January 13, 2019).

*"Interstellar Objects Crash into the Sun", Universe Today (January 11, 2019).

*"Strange `Oumuamua", "Stars and Space" Journal, Finland (January 11, 2019).

*"Our Future in Space", Scientific American (January 10, 2019).

*"If True, a Great Discovery", Ha'aretz Online (January 10, 2019).

*"Advanced ETs as an Approximation to God", accepted for publication (January 9, 2019).

*"Oumuamua: Our Interstellar Visitor", Podcast on TSID (January 7, 2019).

*"Thinking About Distant Civilizations Isn't Speculative", Der Spiegel Online in English (January 7, 2019).

*"If Extraterrestrials are Peacful, We Could Learn from Them", Der Spiegel (January 4, 2019).

*"What Might Become Our Most Important Discovery", Ha'aretz (January 4, 2019).

*"Personal Meeting", An hour long radio interview in hebrew with Tali Lipkin-Shahak, Galei Zahal (January 4, 2019).

*"Is Life Universal?", Podcast by Event Horizon (December 31, 2018).

*"Predictions for 2019", NBC News (December 27, 2018).

*"`Oumuamua is the 12th Most Read News Story for 2018", NBC News (December 28, 2018).

*"Top Space Stories of 2018", NBC News (December 26, 2018).

*"SETI", NBC News (December 25, 2018).

*"How to Approach the Problem of `Oumuamua", Scientific American (December 19, 2018).

*"Our Future in Space Will Echo Our Future on Earth", accepted for publication (December 17, 2018).

*"Inflation and the Multiverse", "Closer to Truth" (December 10, 2018).

*"Radio Interview on `Oumuamua", The Space Show (December 11, 2018).

*"Starshot Initiative", Big Think (December 11, 2018).

*"Harvard's Paper on `Oumuamua was the Top Space Story of 2018 on CNN", CNN (December 7, 2018).

*"ETs in 2018", Grapevine (December 6, 2018).

*"Message in a Bottle", Radio Interview (December 5, 2018).

*"Four Potential Interstellar Objects in the Solar System", Forbes magazine (November 30, 2018).

*"Trapped Interstellar Asteroids in the Solar System", Universe Today (November 29, 2018).

*"Is `Oumuamua a Comet?", Transcript of interview with Rob Reid, Ars Technica (November 29, 2018).

*"Our Interstellar Visitor", Podcast with Rob Reid (November 28, 2018).

*"Is `Oumuamua Artificial in Origin?", "Tech Insider (December 2, 2018).

*"Breaking the Walls of the Solar System", "Falling Walls" conferenc, Berlin, Germany (November 9, 2018).

*"InSight Lander on Mars", Boston Globe (November 26, 2018).

*"Hot Spots Around the Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way", Scientific American (November 25, 2018).

*"Six Strange Facts About the Interstellar Visitor, `Oumuamua ", Scientific American (November 20, 2018).

*"Podcast About the Unexpected Guest to the Solar System, `Oumuamua", Q&A with Rob Reid (November 14, 2018).

*"Something Weird This Way Comes", Harvard Gazette (November 19, 2018).

*"Finding the Truth", Die Zeit, Germany (November 14, 2018).

*"Seeking the Turth When the Consensus is Against You", Scientific American (November 9, 2018).

*"Video Interview on `Oumuamua", Clixoom Science (November 9, 2018).

*"NPR Interview on `Oumuamua", WGBH (November 9, 2018).

*"`Oumuamua", Event Horizon (November 9, 2018).

*"`Oumuamua", CBS This Morning (November 9, 2018).

*"Interstellar Object", CBS NYC TV (November 9, 2018).

*"Interstellar Object", Boston Globe (November 5, 2018).

*"Visiting an Interstellar Object in the Search for Life", Gizmodo (October 31, 2018).

*"Could `Oumuamua be an Extraterrestrial Solar Sail?", Phys.Org (October 31, 2018).

*"Edge of Black Hole", Quanta Magazine (October 30, 2018).

*"`Oumuamua, Thin Films and Lightsails", Centauri Dreams (October 29, 2018).

*"Panspermia Theory", Harvard Crimson (October 26, 2018).

*"What Happens in Black Holes", Closer to Truth (October 25, 2018).

*"Long Term Evolution of the Universe", Closer to Truth (October 25, 2018).

*"Future of Cosmology", Closer to Truth (October 25, 2018).

*"Ultimate Questions", Closer to Truth (October 25, 2018).

*"Anthropic Principle", Closer to Truth (October 25, 2018).

*"Multiverse", Closer to Truth (October 25, 2018).

*"Alien Intelligence", Closer to Truth (October 25, 2018).

*"Speakers List for Falling Walls", Berlin (October 19, 2018).

*"100 Alumni We Love", "American Friends of the Hebrew University" (October 25, 2018).

*"Making the Church Taller", Scientific American (October 18, 2018).

*"Life in the Cosmos", Closer to Truth (October 16, 2018).

*"Comet-like Objects Could be Spreading Life", Science magazine (October 15, 2018).

*"Galactic Panspermia", Universe Today (October 13, 2018).

*"Was the Universe Finely Tuned?", Closer to Truth (October 8, 2018).

*"Potential Trouble for Life on Icy Moons", Sky & Telescope (October 4, 2018).

*"Risks for Life Near Quasars", Forbes Magazine (September 28, 2018).

*"Search for Aliens", Grapevine (September 28, 2018).

*"How to Search for Dead Cosmic Civilizations", Scientific American (September 27, 2018).

*"Extended Interview on Alien Civilizations", Event Horizon (September 24, 2018).

*"Starshot in Search for Extrasolar Life", The Harvard Crimson (September 24, 2018).

*"More Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts", NBC News (September 24, 2018).

*"Tweet about Public Lecture", Yuri Milner (September 22, 2018).

*"Public Lecture on the "Search for Primitive and Intelligent Life on Other Planets", Harvard-Smithsonian CfA (September 20, 2018).

*"Big-Bang or Bounce", Universe Today (September 20, 2018).

*"A New Test for the Leading Big Bang Theory", Quanta Magazine (September 11, 2018).

*"FRB 121102: New Bursts From Older Data", Centauri Dreams (September 11, 2018).

*"Philosophy and Science", Scientific American (September 10, 2018).

*"Testing Free Will With AI", Q&A Podcast with John Farrell, FQXi (August 30, 2018).

*"The Power of Anomalies", Scientific American (August 28, 2018).

*"Why Alien Civilizations May Be Moving To Galaxy Clusters", Event Horizon, YouTube (August 26, 2018).

*"Life Goes On: How Cosmic Doomsday Might Not be the End", Nature, Scientific Reports (August 23, 2018).

*"Are We Alone?", CNET (August 22, 2018).

*"Starshot", Paul Gilster, Centauri Dreams (August 17, 2018).

*"No Risk from Interstellar War", Forbes magazine (August 16, 2018).

*"Exoplanet Revolution", The Daily Galaxy (August 15, 2018).

*"Q&A Interview on Dwarf Stars and Ice Shells", by John Michael Godier, Event Horizon (August 13, 2018).

*"Q&A Interview on Exciting Frontiers in Astrophysics", by Fraser Cain, Universe Today (August 13, 2018).

*"Our Dialogue with Nature", Scientific American (August 10, 2018).

*"Science is an Infinite-Sum Game", Scientific American (July 31, 2018).

*"Where do ideas come from?", Scientific American (July 23, 2018).

*"Did the Dark Matter Have a Chilling Effect on the Early Universe?", Physics World (July 10, 2018).

*"Future of gravitational wave astrophysics", Banquet lecture of Nobel Laureate Rai Weiss, Harvard (posted on July 9, 2018).

*"Future of travel to interstellar space", Keynote Address to the Techniche 2018 Conference, India (July 3, 2018).

*"The first stars may shed light on dark matter", Physics (July 2, 2018).

*"The tools humanity will need for living in the year 1 trillion", Physics.org (June 26, 2018).

*"Finding fuel for our frigid cosmic future", Scientific American (June 26, 2018).

*"Journey to Proxima Centauri b", Grapevine (June 25, 2018).

*"On Galactic Migration", Centauri Dreams (June 22, 2018).

*"Cosmic Engineering and the Movement of Stars", Centauri Dreams (June 21, 2018).

*"New videos of Q&A interviews", Closer To Truth (June 10, 2018).

*"Testing Philosophy Through Experiments", Scientific American (June 7, 2018).

*"Breakthrough Starshot Update", Universe Today (June 7, 2018).

*"Are There Enough Chemicals on Icy Worlds to Support Life?", Universe Today (June 6, 2018).

*"New Light on Dark Matter", Harvard Gazette (May 30, 2018).

*"Middlewight Black Holes", Science Magazine (May 30, 2018).

*Keck Observatory Distinguished Public Lecture on "Habitability of the Universe", Hawaii (July 6, 2017).

*"Podcast on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life", Grapevine (May 22, 2018).

*"Discovery of an Interstellar Rock Near Jupiter", Salon (May 22, 2018).

*"Maybe We Could See a Singularity After All", Scientific American (May 22, 2018).

*"Sizes of Black Holes Throughout the Universe", AAS Nova (May 9, 2018).

*"Breakthrough Listen", Grapevine (May 9, 2018).

*"Love Poem for My Wife's Birthday (in hebrew)" (May 6, 2018).

*"Hawking's Last Paper", Newsweek (May 2, 2018).

*"Exoplanets: Optimizing the Target List", Centauri Dreams (May 1, 2018).

*"Where Should We Look for Life?", AAS Nova (April 25, 2018).

*"Escape from Proxima b", Scientific American (April 16, 2018).

*"Making Academia Matter Again", Project Syndicate (April 16, 2018).

*"To Infinity and Beyond: Avi Loeb on Finding Aliens and A New Earth", Podcast of an interview with Benyamin Cohen, From the Grapevine (April 10, 2018).

*"Is Humanity Unusual in the Cosmos?", NPR (April 2, 2018).

*"The First Suns", der Spiegel, Germany (March 2018).

*"My Academic DNA" (March 30, 2018).

*"Celebration of 600th paper", ITC (March 30, 2018).

*"The Star of the Seder", cover story in La'Isha, Israel (March 26, 2018).

*"Bloxham to Step Down as Dean of Science", Harvard Crimson (March 22, 2018).

*"Remembrance of Stephen Hawking at the Black Hole Initiative", Harvard Crimson (March 21, 2018).

*"Comments About Hawking", Newsweek (March 17, 2018).

*"Would Alien Civilizations be Rich?", Newsweek (March 15, 2018).

*"He Cast Light Into Darkest Recesses of the Cosmos", Boston Globe (March 15, 2018).

*"Astronomers and Physicists Remember Stephen Hawking", Popular Mechanics (March 14, 2018).

*"Stephen Hawking and the Nobel Prize", Associated Press (March 14, 2018).

*"TV interview about Stephen Hawking", Associated Press (March 14, 2018).

*"For E.T. Civilizations, Location Could be Everything", Scientific American (March 13, 2018).

*"Discovery of the First Stars", CNN (March 6, 2018).

*"Do Aliens Exist?", Newsweek - cover story (March 1, 2018).

*"First Stars", Science News (Feb 28, 2018).

*Twitter card, Associated Press (Feb 28, 2018).

*"Black Hole Bursts Turn Mini-Neptunes to Super-Earths", Space.com (Feb 27, 2018).

*"Conversation with Nobel Laureate, Rai Weiss", (Feb 15, 2018).

*"Renewing the Contract of Academia with Society" (Feb 14, 2018).

*"Origins of Life and `Oumuamua", Gizmodo (Feb 8, 2018).

*"Interstellar asteroids", Newsweek (Feb 2, 2018).

*"ITC Luncheon", The Harvard Crimson (Feb 1, 2018).

*"Starshot", Forbes (Jan 31, 2018).

*"Solar Flares May Seed Life", New Scientist (Jan 19, 2018).

*"Are Alien Civilizations Technologically Advanced?", Scientific American (Jan 8, 2018).

*"Search for Alien Life", Grapevine (Jan 3, 2018).

*"Are we Alone in the Universe?- Part II", Radio interview (Jan 1, 2018).

*"Are we Alone in the Universe?- Part I", Radio interview (Dec 29, 2017).

*"Panspermia", Newsweek (Dec 21, 2017).

*"The Search for Life", DailyPlanet, Discovery Channel, Canada (Dec 14, 2017).

*"Asteroid or alien?", CNN interview (Dec 12, 2017).

*'Oumuamua, Radio interview (Dec 12, 2017).

*"Mysterious Interstellar Object", The Atlantic (Dec 11, 2017).

*"The Case for Cosmic Modesty", TEDx Harvard College (Dec 5, 2017).

*"Subsurface Life on Icy Worlds", Universe Today (Dec 3, 2017).

*"Breakthrough Prize Ceremony", Palo Alto (Dec 3, 2017).

*"The first Black Holes Mergers in the Infant Universe", Physics.Org (Nov 30, 2017).

*"Breakthrough Starshot", Harvard Crimson (Nov 2, 2017).

*"Future Solar Storms Could Cause Devastating Damage", Scientific American (Oct 18, 2017).

*Our volnurability to solar flares will increase in the future", Radio interview (Oct 17, 2017).

*"Collision of neutron stars produces gold", Mashable (Oct 14, 2017).

*"Stargazing", TEDx Harvard College (Oct 14, 2017).

*"Mass of the Milky Way from Hypervelocity Stars", Universe Today (Oct 4, 2017).

*"Fast Radio Bursts Every Second" (Sep 21, 2017).

*"The Hunt for Alien Life", Australian Broadcasting Corporation (August 29, 2017).

*Q&A Podcast with Astronomy Magazine (August 14, 2017).

*"Breakthrough Starshot successfully launches world's smallest spacecraft", The Guardian (July 28, 2017).

*"To Infinity and Beyond", From the Grapevine (August 2, 2017).

*"Starshot Updates", Q & A ExoLife interview for the PLANETS Foundation (July 26, 2017).

*"Tides Boost the Prospects for Life", Gizmodo (July 20, 2017).

*"The Resilience of Life to Astrophysical Catastrophes", Science magazine; Gizmodo; Washington Post; BBC Interview (at the 26 minute mark); The Atlantic (July 14, 2017).

*"More to Life than the Habitable Zone", Scientific American (July 19, 2017).

*The Starshot Initiative, Popular Moechanics (July 11, 2017).

*Hawaii newspaper reports on Keck Observatory public lecture (July 9, 2017).

*KBIG Radio interview about "Habitability of Our Universe", Hawaii (July 7, 2017).

*"Cosmic Modesty in a Fecund Universe", Centauri Dreams (June 30, 2017).

*"The Case for Cosmic Modesty", Scientific American (June 28, 2017).

*"All Eyes on Proximan Centauri b", PNAS (June 27, 2017).

*"Transfer of Life Among the TRAPPIST-1 Planets", Astronomy magazine (June 14, 2017).

*"Is the life around the nearest stars?", Red Dots (June 13, 2017).

*"Supermassive Black Holes May Sterilize Nearby Planets", Scientific American (May 30, 2017).

*News article from 1989 at the start of Loeb's career (quoted in a new book, just published in 2017).

*"Podcast on the search for life", interview by Duncan Russell starts at 13.30 minutes (May 26, 2017).

*"Is Inflation a Predictive Scientific Theory?", Scientific American (May 9, 2017).

*"Search for Alien Signals", New Scientist (April 26, 2017).

*Breakthrough Starshot, interview for the weekly science podcast of the Guardian, UK (April 20, 2017).

*"A Trip to Proxima b" (a profile article in hebrew), Yekum Tarbut magazine (April 13, 2017).

*Fast Radio Bursts, TV interview for Discovery/Canada science program (April 7, 2017).

*Optimal design of light sails; News report (March 21, 2017).

*Spread of Life Between the TRAPPIST-1 Planets; News report (March 10, 2017).

*"Fast Radio Bursts from Extragalactic Light Sails"; NPR interview; BBC interview; The Economist; The Huffington Post ; (March 15, 2017).

*Black Hole Initiative featured on the JTF website (March 1, 2017).

*Latest study of the "Sandage-Loeb Test" (March 15, 2017).

*Podcast interview about "Life in the Universe" (February 22, 2017).

*"A Cell Phone Search for FRBs" (February 14, 2017).

*"A Black Hole in the Glubular Cluster 47 Tucanae", Nature (February 9, 2017).

*"My Mother" (September 15, 2019).

*"Back to Basics" (February 4, 2017).

*"Farthest Stars in Milky Way Might Be Ripped from Another Galaxy" (January 11, 2017).

*"Astrophysical Russian Dolls", a commentary in Nature Astronomy (January 4, 2017).

*News report about Starshot lecture at the Calcalist conference "Forecasts 2017" (in hebrew; January 1, 2017).

*Podcast for the John Batchelor Show, "From the First Star to Milkomeda", (December 17, 2016).

*"Pop Goes the Universe", Scientific American (2017).

*Project Starshot: Visiting the Nearest Star Within Our Lifetime" CfA colloquium (December 1, 2016).

*Podcast of radio interview in the John Batchelor Show (November 30, 2016).

*Podcast for Nature magazine entitled: "Keep an Open Mind", starts at 15:10 minutes (November 3, 2016).

*"Good Data Are Not Enough", Nature (November 3, 2016).

*"Imaging of Proxima b", Gizmodo (October 14, 2016).

*"How to See Proxima b", Scientific American (September 29, 2016).

*"Interstellar travel", radio interview with John Catsimatidis (September 9, 2016).

*"The `Earth next door' may have a cozy atmosphere" Business Insider (September 9, 2016).

*Podcast of interview with Tamara LePine-Williams on Classic FM Radio, South Africa (September 8, 2016).

*"How we will get our first clue about life in Proxima b", Gizmodo (August 30, 2016).

*TV interview on the discovery of Proxima b, i24news (August 25, 2016).

*Audio interview by Howard Hughes, UK National Radio Station (August 14, 2016).

*Podcast on "The Future Universe - Teeming with Life?", in SparkDialog by Elizabeth Fernandez (August 15, 2016).

*Video of keynote lecture entitled "Innovation and Risk", given at the Breakthrough Discuss conference in stanford on April 15, 2016.

*Likelihood of Life as a Function of Cosmic Time (August 1, 2016).

*Press release on Direct Collapse Black Holes (July 6, 2016).

*TV interview on the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative, newTV (June 22, 2016).

*Universe's first life might have been born on carbon planets (June 9, 2016).

*Article about Breakthrough Starshot (in hebrew), Calcalist (May 5, 2016).

*Stephen Hawking's speech at Passover dinner in Loeb's home, Scientific American (April 22, 2016).

*"The Black Hole Initiative", Smithsonian magazine (April 18, 2016).

*"Destination: Nearest Star", Q & A at the Harvard Gazette (April 15, 2016).

*Video of announcement of Breakthrough Starshot with Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking (April 12, 2016).

*"Reaching for the Stars, Across 4.37 Light Years", New York Times (April 12, 2016).

*"Revealing the Universe's Mysterious Dark Age", NOVA NEXT (April 6, 2016).

*Podcast by Scientific American about the LIGO event (March 30, 2016).

*Q & A with Avi Loeb and Meg Urry, moderated by Claudia Dreifus, during the "Seven Days of Genius" Festival at 92Y in New York City (March 7, 2016).

*LIGO's black holes may have lived and died inside a huge star (2/2016).

*LIGO discovery, ITC luncheon (2/2016).

*Search for aliens, Boston Globe (2/2016).

*Physics in 1 Trillion Years, NOVA, PBS (2/2016).

*LIGO discovery, Boston.com (2/2016).

*"The Hunt for Dwarf Galaxies Ancestors", AAS Nova (1/2016).

*Launch of new book in hebrew, entitled "From the First Star to the End of Time", Tel Aviv University (12/2015).

*"Fast Radio Bursts Mystery", Scientific American (12/2015).

*"The Archaeology of Stars", cover story of Discover magazine (12/2015).

*"Black Holes", video of lecture at GR@100, IAS, Princeton (11/2015).

*"Promoting Diversity in Faculty Searches", see minute 47 and later in the video (10/15).

*Celebration of 500th paper with my research group (10/15).

*"Cosmic Dawn" Horizon episode broadcasted by BBC TWO (9/15) ; inspired by Loeb's Scientific American article from 2006

*Observational test for the spread of life between stars (panspermia), Discover magazine (8/15); original paper

*SETI of Leakage from Light Sails in Exoplanetary Systems, Popular Mechanics (8/15); original paper

*"Superstars of Astronomy", Astronomy Magazine (5/15)

*"Cosmic Dawn", BBC (8/15)

*Breakthrough Initiatives in the Search for Life, TIME (7/15)

*"How Avi Loeb did not become a philosopher. Or did he?", a tweet by John Preskill (7/15)

*"Are we alone?", Scientific American (8/15)

*"Astronomers Glimpse Very First Stars in the Universe", National Geographic (6/15)

*"Abundant Water in the First Billion Years", Press Release (4/15)

*"Fostering Talent", Physics World (4/15)

*"Is Avi Right?", George Efstathiou, click on 17:00 (4/15)

*"SKA Headquarters", Physics World (4/15) ; Nature (3/15)

*"The Dark Lab", Science Magazine (3/15)

*"Gigantic Black Hole Discovered from the Dawn of Time", National Geographic (2/15)

*Detecting Gravitational Waves with Atomic Clocks", Smithsonian magazine (2/15)

*Essay on "How to collect matches that will catch fire"; News report in Italian (2/15)

*BBC filming for Horizon program on the first stars (1/15)

*"Black hole binary", NY Times (1/15)

*Two of Loeb's students, Henry Lin and Tony Pan, are featured in Forbes magazine list of "30 under 30 in Science" (1/15)

*"Relativistic stars", TIME magazine (12/14)

*"Much-Discussed Views that Go Way Back", New York Times (12/14)

*Q\&A for FAS Dean's Report (2014).

*Biographical sketch (2014).

*Milky Way's Black Hole, Space.com (11/14)

*Trip through wormholes, Smithsonian Magzine (11/14)

*TV interview by Douglas Kennedy (10/14)

*Q&A interview on pages 22 and 23 of the 2014 Harvard's FAS Dean's Report (10/14)

*"The Lost Donkeys of Science", Project Syndicate (10/14)

*Public Lecture on "New Search Methods for Primitive and Intelligent Life Far from Earth" ; Harvard Crimson report ; Harvard Gazette report ; Astronomy magazine report (10/14)

*"Pollution on Other Worlds May Show Advanced Alien Life", ApJL ; TIME Magazine article (7/14) ; NPR interview (8/14)

*"Interplanetary World Cup", Sports Illustrated (6/14)

*"Galactic Collision Gave Andromeda Its Arms", Nature (6/14)

*"On the Benefits of Promoting Diversity of Ideas", Nature Physics (9/14) ; INAF article (in Italian)

*Collision between the Milky Way and Andromeda, National Geographic (3/14)

*Cosmic Dawn, Scientific American (4/14)

*Theory of everything, Space.com (3/14)

*Interviews on cosmology, "Closer to Truth" (3/14)

*Hunt for Rogue black holes, Space.com (3/14)

*TV interview about the Big Bang (in hebrew), Channel 2, Israel (3/14)

*Big Bang Theory, Smithsonian Magazine (3/14) , in New Scientist , in Harvard Gazette, and public lecture (2/14)

*Review of book on First Galaxies, Physics Today (2/14)

*The latest snack of SgrA*, NY Times (2/14) ; and PBS Newshour (3/14)

*Creativity in science, NPR (2/14)

*"Closing the Window on Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter" ; see report in Nature (1/14) , or in New Scientist (2/14)

*"Insights on Supermassive Black Holes", Nature (1/14)

*"Fast Radio Bursts Might Come from Nearby Stars" ; see press release (12/13)

*"The Habitable Epoch of the Early Universe" ; see report in Nature (12/13) , radio interview (3/14) , in Space.com (1/14) , in Slate magazine (2/14) and in Ciel \& Espace (French, 2/14)

*"Chasing Avi Through Outer Space Media", by Charlie Petit (12/13)

*"The 25 Most Influential People in Space", by TIME Magazine. (12/12)

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