Tom Levenson talks with David Dobbs about the current crazed, crazy-making, intensely exciting state of the study of genetics and the false choice betwen nature and nurture. Follow @David_Dobbs @TomLevenson More

Neuro.... prosthetics. Jennifer Ouellette talks with Malcolm MacIver, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern about robotics, neuroscience, bio-inspired robotics, and robotics-inspired neuromechanics. Foll

In advance of the upcoming IPCC release. Roger Pielke, Prof of environmental studies at the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado at Boulder talks with host Alan Boyle climate policy, and whether new assessments

Jennifer Ouellette talks with JPL planetary scientist Kevin Hand -- consultant on the new film "Europa Report" -- about the science behind the film, his own work recreating conditions on Europa in the lab, why hydrothermal vents are so fascinating to ast

Alan Boyle hosts a free-wheeling conversation about the first year of Curiousity on Mars, with reminiscences of what the landing was like, how the mission has been going, and what lies ahead. Alan is joined by Science Fiction writer Doug Turnbull and Mar

Host Tom Levenson - filmmaker, author and professor of science writing at MIT talks with David Epstein. An investigative reporter writing about sports science & medicine for Science News and Sports Illustrated, David Epstein is author of The Sports Gene:

NBC Digital Science Editor Alan Boyle visits with NBC News 'Space Analyst' James Oberg talk about the upcoming Apollo 11 anniversary, myths surrounding Apollo, and perhaps the “no girls allowed” issue. http://www.nbcnews.com/science/neil-armstrong-go

Tom Levenson - filmmaker and Prof of Science Writing at MIT - talks with science writer and journalist Russ Rymer about writing fiction and non fiction, the relation of writing to science and art to science. The discuss Rymer's third book and science/med

Transparency, security & privacy David Brin talks about these and more with Jay Ackroyd. Recent work:The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom? (Winner of the Freedom of Speech Award of the American Library A

Jennifer Ouellette hosts Caleb Scharf — Director of Columbia University's multidisciplinary Astrobiology Center. They'll talk about observational cosmology, X-ray astronomy, exoplanetary science, Gravity's Engines: How Bubble-Blowing Black Holes Ru