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  1. Astronomy

    Second stop planned for mission to Pluto

    Scientists identify three possible targets for the New Horizons probe after it visits the former planet.

  2. Health & Medicine

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    Readers discuss methods to prevent sepsis and whether genes are thrifty, while Tina Saey clears up some confusion regarding Ebola's airborne status.

  3. Astronomy

    Cosmic jets re-created in a lab

    Physicists have recreated in a lab the plasma jets that erupt from young stars and black holes.

  4. Health & Medicine

    Dallas health worker is first to catch Ebola in U.S.

    A health worker in Dallas has Ebola. She is the first to catch the virus in the U.S.

  5. Environment

    World’s first full-scale clean coal plant now up and running

    After decades of delays, technology that cuts carbon emissions from commercial power plants has made its worldwide debut.

  6. Health & Medicine

    First Ebola patient diagnosed in U.S. dies

    Thomas Eric Duncan, who contracted the virus in Liberia and fell ill four days after traveling to Dallas, died October 8.

  7. Tech

    Microscopy techniques win Nobel Prize in chemistry

    The award goes to three scientists who developed fluorescence microscopy, which allows researchers to see single molecules just a billionth of a meter across.

  8. Physics

    Blue light-emitting diode earns three researchers Nobel Prize in physics

    The invention of blue light-emitting diodes has been awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in physics.

  9. Neuroscience

    Brain’s map cells win three scientists Nobel Prize

    The discovery of brain cells that provide a sort of “inner GPS” has been awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.

  10. Neuroscience

    White House gives progress report on BRAIN Initiative

    More pieces of President Obama’s ambitious BRAIN Initiative announced April 2013 have fallen into place.

  11. Health & Medicine

    Ebola case identified in Dallas

    The first case of Ebola to be diagnosed in the United States was announced September 30 in Texas.

  12. Planetary Science

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    Readers discuss sources of stress in everyday life and tell us what they think about NASA's plan to nab an asteroid.