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  1. Health & Medicine

    More than 1 million Ebola cases may hit West Africa by January

    New projections of the outbreak suggest that without drastic improvements, weekly cases could increase from hundreds to thousands.

    By Nathan Seppa and Janet Raloff
  2. Cosmology

    Gravitational wave discovery gives way to Milky Way dust

    New polarization maps from the Planck satellite suggest that the BICEP2 announcement this year of primordial gravitational waves might be due entirely to dust in our galaxy.

    By Christopher Crockett
  3. Health & Medicine

    Statins may improve odds of surviving a bleeding stroke

    Common cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins may help people who have suffered a stroke caused by ruptured blood vessels.