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What if you could charge your cell phone and other electronics in less than a minute?

Nearly 3 million Americans have glaucoma. Currently there’s no cure for this degenerative disease, but a new tool could help doctors diagnose the condition before it becomes more difficult to treat.

From understanding how the human body reacts to long-term spaceflight to testing critical systems for Mars missions, the International Space Station is our stepping stone to deep-space exploration.

Finding a fingerprint match means sifting through huge databases – and that takes time. But what if you could rule out many of the suspects before you started looking for a match?

Filtering air inside a spacecraft is an absolute necessity. So NASA is underway with a NIAC study to modify submarine technology for inflatable vehicles in space.

Comets, asteroids, and hedgehogs? These spiky little robots are a perfect fit for low-gravity exploration. Hear from the experts why they think these will work.

Lighter than their rigid-structure counterparts, and therefore less expensive to launch; quieter than the aluminum walls of other modules; the fabric of inflatable modules may even be more resistant to micrometeors. So NASA is putting the first inflatable habitat to the test.

When methane plumes were discovered on Mars in 2003, researchers found a way to detect methane on the surface – and now that same technology is being used right here on Earth.

In spite of being hosts for a multitude of different viruses, bats don’t display any signs of the resulting diseases. What is it that keeps these creatures of the night so healthy?

Thanks to a new computer simulation, a process that normally takes decades can happen in just a few weeks.