Hurricane Sandy presented unprecedented opportunities to measure beaches and shorelines along its expected path for data that would improve computer models that predict coastal flooding and erosion.

An engineered "lung-on-a-chip" can faithfully model a serious respiratory ailment and accurately predict the toxicity of a compound that causes the disease and the ability of a new drug to prevent it.

After two good, long analyses, Curiosity scientists can only say that, with 95% confidence, there is between 0 and 5 ppb of methane in martian air.