Science Weekly: Scientists slug it out

What happens when fierce scientific rivals go head to head? Joel Levy discusses some of history's most epic battles to discredit the work of colleagues. Do these often petty quarrels help or hinder the progress of science? Joel's book Scientific Feuds: From Galileo to the Human Genome Project is out now. Museum director Tony Hill takes us on a tour as Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) undergoes an £8m redevelopment. Peek behind the scaffolding on our video tour . The Science Weekly team question why Stephen Hawking's views on the existence or otherwise of God are making headlines, again; they discuss the Guardian's Bjørn Lomborg climate change exclusive ; a stay of execution for Fermilab's Tevatron atom smasher ; why the Higgs boson is causing a headache for the Nobel prize committee; and the problems of carbon emissions "embedded" in imported goods . Check out our shiny new science front page and meet our crack team of science bloggers : The Lay Scientist by Martin Robbins Life and Physics by Jon Butterworth Punctuated Equilibrium by GrrlScientist Political Science by Evan Harris Follow the podcast on our Science Weekly Twitter feed and receive updates on all breaking science news stories from Guardian Science . Email [email protected] . Join our Facebook group . Listen back through our archive . Subscribe free via iTunes to ensure every episode gets delivered. (Here is the non-iTunes URL feed ).