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The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark was one of the major science stories of 2009. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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The year in science

Broadcast: Midmorning, 01/05/2010, 10:06 a.m.

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Last year brought historical anniversaries for Darwin and Galileo and real-time discoveries from earth-like planets in our galaxy to controversy over global warming on earth. Midmorning talks about the scientific discoveries and science policy issues that came out of 2009.

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  • Chris Mooney: blogs at Discover.com and is currently a Knight fellow in science journalism at MIT. He is co-author of "Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future."
  • Lawrence Krauss: Co-Director, Cosmology Initiative at Arizona State University.

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