Ebola, comet landing and 2014's other top science news

In November 2014, humans landed a probe on a comet - for the first time. Despite a tiny issue with harpoons, the European Space Agency probe, Philae, survived the landing and went on to sniff out some organic molecules on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko before going into sleep mode.

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