Listening for Alien Life

The Allen Telescope Array, a futuristic assemblage of 42 metal dishes scattered across UC Berkeley's Hat Creek Observatory, is humanity's leading effort to find intelligent life in outer space. It is also the culmination of years of work by husband and wife astronomers Jack Welch and Jill Tarter.

The Chemotherapy of the Future

Professor Michael Rape has plans to exchange the brute force of today's cancer drugs for more fine-tuned therapies. His research is about to enjoy a dramatic increase in scope. The result could be that holy grail of cancer treatment-a tissue-specific chemotherapy.

The Mathematician and the Genome

The Human Genome Project was hailed as a major breakthrough in science. But research into our biochemical blueprints had only just begun. Berkeley professor Lior Pachter, who considers himself a mathematical biologist, has been at the forefront of the new genomic analyses.

Berkeley astronomy professor Jack Welch and a former student examine the feed of an antenna in the Allen Telescope Array.