Boats are seen spraying water on an oil and gas platform that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana., Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. All 13 crew members were rescued. (Gerald Herbert/ASSOCIATED PRESS)
The year in science
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2010 was a big year for natural disasters on earth, but stories about what lies beyond our solar system also made the headlines. Midmorning looks at the big science stories from 2010.
Guests
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Paul Raeburn: Biology and medical writer for the Knight Science Journalism Tracker at MIT and author of the forthcoming book, "Why Fathers Matter."
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Ivan Semeniuk: News editor, Nature magazine, and former Science Journalist in Residence at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto.
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