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

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 two reunited at a recent fan convention ...

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 ...

Sports rehab research at Loughborough University is turning fantasy into reality with the aim of supercharging recovery and making treatments more widely available ...

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

BIONICS FOR BLINDNESS. Think exceptional sight would be a cool superpower? You’re in luck: Researchers from the University of Minnesota have built a bionic eye prototype that could restore sight to ...

After going blind two years ago, this woman received a bionic eye implant. — -- A Honolulu woman who went blind two years ago will soon be able to see again thanks to her new bionic eye. Surgeons ...

It was love again at first sight. — -- It was love again at first sight for a man who went blind 10 years ago. Allen Zderad, a 68-year-old retiree from Minnesota, saw his wife for the first time ...