Community Edition - Oct. 10, 2017

Physicists have created an atomic clock that reaches the same level of precision as its predecessors but is more than 20 times faster, promising dramatically improved measurements and more.

David Pyrooz has interviewed hundreds of gang members, searching for insight into how some manage to avoid or escape what he calls "the snare" of gang life, while others succumb to it.

Light-activated nanoparticles, also known as quantum dots, can provide a crucial boost in effectiveness for antibiotic treatments used to combat drug-resistant superbugs such as E. coli and Salmonella.

For millenia, the origin of life has been a topic of fascination, debate and investigation. Leading thinkers in the field will synthesize what we know, don't know and where we're headed.

Balancing energy resources, effectively communicating climate science and developing renewable technologies take center stage in this fall lecture series starting Oct. 14.