The Hunt for Dark Matter

The Allen Telescope Array will eventually help Professor Leo Blitz and others illuminate two very dark areas of astronomy: If the universe should contain far more dwarf galaxies than astronomers can identify, could the rest exist as galaxies made up solely of dark matter? And why haven't today's galaxies run out of gas yet?

Statistical Challenges in Genomics

For biologists, DNA microarrays are a boon and curse alike. Berkeley's Sandrine Dudoit is coming to their assistance with statistical and computational methods needed to analyze and understand the mind-bogglingly large and intricate datasets these and other high-throughput biotechnologies generate.

Tracking Space Transients

Berkeley astronomy professor Joshua Bloom compares the analysis of a gamma ray burst to a crime scene investigation. Blowing something up in a mere second creates a forensics scene and a search for fingerprints. Bloom uses this technique to find new types of gamma ray bursts and explain their origins.

Professor Leo Blitz and philanthropist Paul Allen at the Allen Telescope Array.