Inflatable habitat modules like Bigelow Aerospace’s BEAM may point the way to future space station architecture, but with so many micro-meteoroids and bits of space debris shooting around in low Earth orbit, are they safe? To help minimize the risk, researchers from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and LUNA Innovations Inc. are developing ultrasensitive sensors made from …

The fragile X syndrome is the most common form of intellectual impairment in men, affecting 1 out of 3,600 boys. Now, scientists at the Whitehead Institute used the CRISPR/Cas 9 gene editing method to restore activity to the fragile X syndrome gene in affected neurons. Their work, performed on human brain cells in a dish, …

As useful and ubiquitous as solar energy is becoming, it still has one major Kryptonite: gloomy weather. Now, a team of Chinese engineers has developed a hybrid solar cell that can produce electricity come rain or shine, using the triboelectric effect to harvest energy from the movement of raindrops on its surface. Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) …

A team of scientists in China just took a big step toward developing technology that could one day restore vision to the blind. Researchers at Fudan University and the University of Science and Technology of China recently published a paper in the journal Nature Communications that outlines how they used artificial photoreceptors to restore vision …

A vaccine could one day protect men from developing prostate cancer, thanks to a breakthrough by UK scientists. As The Daily Mail reports, experts have designed a vaccine that boosts the immune system’s ability to track down and kill prostate cancer cells as soon as they start to appear in the body. The research is at a …