Nike's battery-powered footwear system, which propels wearers forward, is part of a broader push to help humans move farther ...

When The Bionic Woman premiered in 1976, it was, on paper, a spin-off of The Six Million Dollar Man, created to give Lee Majors‘ Steve Austin a female counterpart. But 50 years later, the series-and ...

The compound eyes of the humble fruit fly are a marvel of nature. They are wide-angle and can process visual information ...

On Jan. 24, there was a knock on the front door of 8-year-old Lily Zataar’s home. Little did this young cancer survivor know ...

Engineers have spent decades trying to make shoes lighter, springier and more supportive. Now they are adding something far more radical: propulsion. Bionic sneakers that quietly push wearers up hills ...

Lindsay Wagner, who played Jaime Sommers in The Six Million Dollar Man and in The Bionic Woman, recently caught up with Lee ...

June 9, 2005 Bionics, the combination of biology and technology is a recent field of research which has nonetheless already made remarkable progress possible in different areas. Nature has provided ...

Phantom limb pain is a common problem for people who undergo amputation, and so is the ability to function even with a regular prosthetic, but a medical advance that sounds like it comes straight out ...

Scientists are on the brink of creating a bionic heart to replace transplants. — -- Scientists at the Texas Heart Institute say the perfect bionic heart is within their reach, but it doesn't beat ...