Surpising science stories captured the headlines in 2006. Pluto was bumped from the planetary line-up. Google bought You Tube. Evidence grew for global warming, in the year of "An Inconvenient Truth." New York City declared war on trans fats and breast cancer rates dropped. In this hour, we'll run down the top science, technology, and medical stories of the year. Plus, what about the stories that were predicted to be big, but weren't--such as this year's hurricane season or leaps in stem cell research?

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Guests:

John Rennie
Editor-in-Chief
Scientific American
New York, New York

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K.C. Cole
Visiting Professor, Journalism
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California

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Barron H. Lerner, M.D.
Author, "When Illness Goes Public: Celebrity Patients and How We Look at
Medicine" (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006)
Angelica Berrie-Gold Foundation Associate Professor of Medicine and
Public Health
Columbia University Medical Center/Mailman School of Public Health
New York, New York

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Adam Rogers
Senior Editor
Wired
San Francisco, California

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This segment produced by Karin Vergoth