A student studies on a cloudy day on the Student Services Lawn, on ASU's Tempe campus.

Prize-winning novelist Ian McEwan and ASU's Paul Davies, director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science, discuss the power of fiction in engaging the great issues of our time during the 2013 Annual Sci-Fi Meets Sci-Fact lecture, March 28. To learn more about the lecture, visit https://asunews.asu.edu/20130322_scifimeetsscifact.

Psychology junior Alex Scott (left) and Bradley Jackson contemplate their next moves in a game of chess at the ASU Chess Club. The club meets from 5-9 p.m., Thursdays, in the Memorial Union on the Tempe campus.

Actress Cameron Diaz watches the live broadcast of NPR's Science Friday in Studio A on the Downtown Phoenix campus. Diaz was in town for a screening of "The Unbelievers" documentary later that night, an event that was part of The Origins Stories weekend at ASU. Following the screening, Diaz spoke as part of a panel discussion about the documentary. Learn more: https://asunews.asu.edu/20130401_origins_unbelievers

Ira Flatow hosts NPR's live broadcast of Science Friday from Studio A on the Downtown Phoenix campus. The broadcast was part of the Origins Project weekend of events at ASU.

Monica Leimpkin, center, talks with Meenakshi Wadhwa, director of ASU's Center for Meteorite Studies, after NPR's live broadcast of Science Friday. Wadhwa was on the program to explain how meteorites can teach researchers about the history of the solar system.

Kyle McDonald, junior, works on a painting outside the ASU Art Museum.

ASU physicist Lawrence Krauss talks with the media before the screening of "The Unbelievers" at ASU Gammage. The documentary-in-progress follows Krauss and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins on globetrotting missions to crusade for the value of science and its reason-based view of the world. Learn more: https://asunews.asu.edu/20130401_origins_unbelievers

The panel discussion for "The Science of Storytelling and the Storytelling of Science" speaks to a sold-out crowd at Gammage Auditorium, March 30. The event was part of ASU's weekend-long Origins festival.

Krauss introduces the panel for "The Science of Storytelling and the Storytelling of Science."

Flatow participates in the Storytelling of Science event. The panel discussed the stories behind cutting-edge science – from the origin of the universe to a discussion of exciting technologies that will change our future. Learn more: https://asunews.asu.edu/20130402_storytellingofscience

Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium, participates in the Storytelling of Science event. deGrasse Tyson gave a captivating account of the intersection of astronomy, science and art in the genesis of Vincent van Gogh’s masterwork, "Starry Night."

Bill Nye "The Science Guy" speaks during the Storytelling of Science event at Gammage.

Science fiction author Neal Stephenson participates in the Storytelling of Science Origns event.

Amanda Wilber, a junior in physics and astrophysics, chats with deGrasse Tyson backstage during the intermission of "The Science of Storytelling and the Storytelling of Science." Wilber is a former student of Lawrence Krauss, who moderated the event.