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The adorable salamanders are helping scientists investigate a serious question: Could the human body be coaxed to regrow a lost arm or leg?

Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords could not open her eyes and wasn't speaking Sunday, but she was responding to simple commands such as to squeeze a hand or hold up two fingers.

Holding hands was the beginning of a relationship that was consummated in our marriage four years later. I had no idea how those hands of Dean would bless me for more than 68 years or how often I ...

First, sensors need to detect what the hand is touching; second, the system must convert that data into nerve-like signals; and third, the user’s nerves have to receive those signals as if they come ...

A new prosthetic hand combines a rigid internal skeleton with soft, flexible joints, mimicking the structure of a real human hand for both strength and delicate touch. A multilayered sensor system in ...

Feeling is believing: Bionic hand 'knows' what it's touching, grasps like a human Pioneering prosthetic hand carefully conforms and adjusts its grasp to avoid damaging or mishandling whatever it holds ...

Last spring, Meisa Salaita, cofounder of Science ATL, which organizes the Atlanta Science Festival, touched a human brain. “Each year during the festival, a brain is displayed,” she explains ...

Our hands perform thousands of complex tasks every day – can artificial intelligence help robots match these extraordinary human appendages?