Undead characters have terrified popular audiences for centuries, but when analyzed closely, their behaviors and stories—however farfetched—mirror our own in surprising ways. Jennifer talks with Glen Whitman & James Dow about Economics of the Undead:

Colonize our solar systerm? Seth Shostak – Senior Astronomer and Director of the Center for SETI Research – talks with Alan Boyle abut Interstellar and other ideas afloat in the culture. http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/science-interstellar-look

Guest host Gaius Publius discusses climate change with Dr. Michael Mann. Gaius has written extensively on climate issues at AmericaBlog and Naked Capitalism. Gaius' write-up of Dr. Mann's Scientific American article, discussed in the interview, is here

Ten years after the $10 million Ansari XPRIZE opened up the age of private-sector spaceflight, two XPRIZE pioneers reflect on the past decade and look ahead to the future of innovation prizes. Tune in to hear from Robert Weiss, a Hollywood producer (“T

Analytical chemist Raychelle Burks talks forensic chemistry, using pop culture to explain chemistry, the Curly-haired Mafia, #BlackandSTEM, girls in science, DIY Science Zone with ethicist and science writer Kelly Hills. Follow @DrRubidium @rocza Rea

Jennifer Ouellette talks with Caltech physicist Spyridon (Spiros) Michalakis about quantum computing and quantum information.  Read quantumfrontiers.com  Follow @quantum_spiros @JenLucPiquant

Life on planets orbiting low mass stars. Dr. Sarah Ballard completed her PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics at Harvard University in 2012 and is now a NASA Carl Sagan fellow at the University of Washington. She’s written articles for the Harvard Crimson a

Hr 1: Kelly hosts journalist Mona Gable, author of Blood Brother: The Gene That Rocked My Family; about genetic testing, the discovery of her brother’s Huntington’s diagnosis and the subsequen choices faced by her family. Gable writes about women

Known for her work in theoretical cosmology at the interface of particle physics and astrophysics, author and theoretical astrophysicist, Katherine Freese is the George Eugene Uhlenbeck Collegiate Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan and

The Planetary Society’s Emily Lakdawalla, Space.com contributor Rod Pyle and journalist and author Marc Kaufman  look back at the first two years of the Curiosity Rover’s mission on Mars, and look ahead to the future of Mars exploration. Pyle is t