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  1. Microbes

    Year in review: Science faces Ebola epidemic

    West Africa’s 2014 Ebola epidemic showed what can happen when a contagious virus emerges where cultural practices, public fears and porous borders fuel the spread of disease.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Oceans

    Alcatraz escapees could have made it safely to shore

    Detailed simulations of the San Francisco Bay suggest that three prisoners who escaped from the prison on Alcatraz Island in 1962 could have made it safely to shore.

    By Thomas Sumner
  3. Astronomy

    Year in review: Dust obscures possible gravitational wave discovery

    A possible signal from moments after the Big Bang may be due to dust in the Milky Way galaxy.