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Living On Earth: Moons & Money	Water-spewing geysers may mean there’s life on one of Saturn’s moons, and how proposed budget cuts could affect the search for life and other space science programs.
NOVA ScienceNOW: Killer Asteroids	In conversation with Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweikert, on a Gravitational Tractor that can deflect killer asteroids.
Living On Earth: Intelligent Design Is Not Science	Discussion of the history of attributing scientific gaps to a higher being, and the notion of intelligent design as "a philosophy of ignorance" that has no place in science.
NOVA's Einstein's Big Idea: E = mc2 Explained	Ten top physicists describe Einstein's famous equation E = mc² on NOVA's Einstein's Big Idea.
Living On Earth: Listener Letters	A listener writes in about the etymology of the name "Xena," while Arabic contributions to astronomy are discussed.
NOVA ScienceNOW: Limitations of Intelligent Life	A NOVA scienceNOW discussion with Robert Krulwich on how physical laws constrains the size of life in the universe.
Living On Earth: Celestial Update	Scientists are talking about a newly discovered object that’s larger than Pluto, the possibility of an asteroid hitting Earth, and what we can do about it.
NOVA ScienceNOW: Encountering Antimatter	On NOVA scienceNOW, commenting on antimatter and what an encounter with an antimatter alien might be like with Robert Krulwich.
Living On Earth: Sailing into Space	Space engineers are looking for new ways to power spacecraft, especially once they’re launched into orbit. Advances in space propulsion technology, including the recent Cosmos 1 mission, was designed to use sails powered by the pressure of sunlight.
Thoughts on Manhattanhenge	Thoughts on Manhattanhenge from New York's public radio station WNYC.