Astrophysicist Adam Frank says that science has united us during this very difficult year. Writing for NBCNews.com , Frank argues, "It is no overstatement to say that science saved our lives and our hope for the future. And it did so by overcoming all the denialists who attack its validity, dismiss its honesty and power, and repeatedly call for its funding to be cut." He discusses those ideas, and he joins colleagues to explain how scientists are using "football field-sized lasers to recreate