Science

Oil and Water

Environmentalists and oil executives don’t often sit down to talk to each other. In this program you'll hear two candid conversations with prominent alternative energy advocates and top energy executives who have very different visions for powering the future.You'll also hear from Pulitzer Prize winning author Steve Coll, who wrote a revealing profile of Exxon Mobil and its campaign to discredit climate science.

A $100 million line item in President Barack Obama’s proposed federal budget for next fiscal year could jump start a space project made all the more urgent by two close asteroid encounters from earlier in the year.

NASA plans to start work on a mission that will send astronauts to an asteroid in the next eight years.  Scientists say the program is the next step toward humans colonizing space. Call it “manifest galaxy.”

“The plan calls for a robotic spacecraft to capture an asteroid and tow it to a stable orbit around the moon,” said U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.).