Rerun. No calls. Cosmic Log's Alan Boyle and Space Studies Institute's Robin Snelson explore the often-volatile landscape of science, politics and policy. This weekt: George Djorgovski: Professor of Astronomy; Co-Director of the Center for Advanced Compu

From the VS Science archives, produced in cooperation with MICA, the Meta Institute for Computational Astrophysics: Tom Levenson talks with Science Historian Naomi Oreskes, author of "Merchants of Doubt, How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on

Feeling down about spaceflight? Lift your spirits with Yuri's Night MSNBC.com's Alan Boyle talks with Veronica Ann Zabala-Aliberto, Director of Marketing for Yuri's Night 2012, about spaceflight's past and future. Watch for the pre-show interview at Cosm

Tom Levenson talks with Maryn McKenna: author of Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA (Free Press/Simon & Schuster, 2010), an investigation of the global epidemic of drug-resistant staph, which received the 2011 Science in Society Award; and Beating Back t

Who is John Carter and what have we learned about Mars in the past century? MSNBC's Alan Boyle (Cosmic Log) talks with JPL Chief Scientist, Mars Exploration Directorate Dave Beaty. VS Science is produced in cooperation with MICA. Follow @b0yle Read Alan'

In a science rerun, cosmologist Lee Smolin and host Jay Ackroyd discuss the nature of time, and questions the explanatory power of the multiverse hypothesis. And he does it on the day that the super fast neutrino beat the speed of light. Or, maybe not.

Recorded Feb 1, 2012 Virtually Speaking Science | How do the US presidential candidates view science and technology issues? Why might politically undeclared scientists join the GOP? MSNBC's Alan Boyle (Cosmic Log) talks with ScienceDebate.org's Shawn Law

Program recorded Nov 2011 Tom Levenson – Science documentary filmmaker and Director of MIT's Graduate program in writing and humanistic studies — hosts VS Science on the third Wednesday of the month to discuss history of science, economics, a

Recorded Live Wednesday, Feb 15, 2012 MIT's Tom Levenson (Inverse Square and Balloon Juice) talks with theoretical physicist Matt Strassler about the Higg's Field, the Large Hadron Collider and what it means for our understanding of physical reality. Foll