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Ned Potter is the science correspondent for ABC's "World News with Charles Gibson." He has reported on such topics as space exploration, the human genome and climate change.
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Galaxies in Collision
Five billion light-years away, the Spitzer infrared Space Telescope has spotted a cataclysm in progress--four galaxies crashing into each other, flinging stars in all different directions. Galactic collisions are actually fairly common, but not on the scale observed in this...
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August 7, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (28)
The American Infrastructure
In the aftermath of last night's bridge collapse in Minneapolis, a lot of Americans may well have driven to work today wondering how things are where they live. The American Society of Civil Engineers has raised the question in regular...
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August 2, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (16)
Swimming With Sharks
One of the nice things about science reporting is that one gets to meet interesting people, doing worthwhile things, who want to tell their stories. So yesterday, we met Bertha. Bertha is a sand tiger shark. She lives at the...
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August 1, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (4)
