Cochlear implants have successfully restored hearing to thousands of deaf individuals. With steady advances in microelectronics, their footprint has shrunk to the point where a fully implantable ...

Talk about thinking small: researchers at Harvard University have devised a new way to implant flexible bioelectronic devices in the embryos of frogs, mice, and lizards, enabling them to monitor brain ...

This year gave rise to an incredible mix of brain implants that can record, decode, and alter brain activity. It sounds like déjà vu—brain-machine interfaces also lived rent free in my head in last ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

Bioengineering researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a soft, thin, stretchable bioelectronic device that can be implanted into a ...

Early brain development is a biological black box. While scientists have devised multiple ways to record electrical signals in adult brains, these techniques don’t work for embryos. A team at Harvard ...

Bioengineering researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a soft, thin, stretchable bioelectronic device that can be implanted into a ...

French scientists have developed a thin, prosthetic ribbon embedded with electrodes that lies along the spinal cord and delivers electrical impulses and drugs for the purpose of activating nearby ...

If high-quality headphones are too big and bulky for you -- or ruin your marvelous hair -- and you're sick of having to replace earbuds every few months because the wires inevitably break in some ...

An overview of Cyborg: A Documentary. Insight into the integrated hardware. How technology is utilized to create different senses. Take our Quick Poll below on becoming a cyborg. Neil Harbisson is a ...

A woman has gone under the knife and woken up with cyborg-like enhancements. No, this isn't the plot to a female-fronted RoboCop remake, it's the story of a biohacker named Jes, who now has a glowing ...