The earth's oceans are clogged with millions of tons of plastic trash, threatening marine life and, in some cases, the safety of our seafood here on land. One particularly troubling study this year ...

Inspired by fictional cyborgs like Terminator, a team of researchers at the University of Michigan and the University of Pittsburgh has made the first bionic particles from semiconductors and proteins ...

BOSTON – One by one survivors who lost limbs in the Boston Marathon bombings crossed the finish line in Saturday's tribute run. Heather Abbott on a running blade. Celeste Corcoran with two prosthetic ...

Bionic pancreas would manage blood sugar levels%2C with help from iPhone app Researchers hope to have device on the market in 2017 About 1 in 10 U.S. adults suffers from diabetes JACKSON, Miss. -- ...

is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. The latest bionic hand can do a lot more than just let its wearer hold things: it can actually let ...

The pancreas of an individual with type 1 diabetes does not produce the hormone insulin, which is essential to allow body tissues to take up and use glucose from the blood. Before the discovery of ...

The first glasses in the world, it seems, were created some 700 years ago. It's taken until this year, 2014, for patients to receive the first FDA-approved bionic eyes. This breakthrough comes via ...

A French startup has turned to crowdfunding to build an extremely light bionic bird that can be controlled using the magnetometer and accelerometer in a smartphone. The bird, currently at the ...

Victoria’s Secret is so last year. Soon, women may enjoy high-tech breast support from a “bionic bra.” Researchers in Australia have developed a prototype sports bra that they say automatically ...

Bertolt Meyer was born without a lower left arm. He started wearing his first prosthesis, or artificial arm, when he was 3 months old. Now at age 37, Meyer wears the futuristic i-limb — a high-tech ...

Everything was bionic in the 1970s, even investment strategies. Bionic Beta was the buzz phrase with institutional investors. This wasn’t a strategy that invested in companies that made bionic arms, ...