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Jan. 04, 2013
Looking Back on a Year in Science
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In 2012 the Higgs boson was spotted at CERN, private company SpaceX began supply flights to the International Space Station, and the world bade farewell to the Galapagos tortoise Lonesome George. A panel of journalists discusses the year’s top stories in science.
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Produced by Charles Bergquist, Director and Contributing Producer
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Mariette DiChristina
Editor in Chief and Senior Vice President
Scientific American
New York, New York -
Ivan Oransky
Executive Editor, Reuters Health
Cofounder, Retraction Watch
New York, New York -
Mark Frauenfelder
Cofounder, Boing Boing
Editor-in-chief, MAKE Magazine
Los Angeles, California
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