The science and technology publication American Scientist wrote about the "record-breaking, 10-inch-long whopper of a ...

A new prosthetic hand offers strength, grasps objects with control, and detects textures, coming the closest yet to mimicking human […] ...

A team of engineers has recently created a breakthrough prosthetic hand that can deftly handle everyday objects.

"The human hand isn't completely rigid or purely soft -- it's a hybrid system, with bones, soft joints, and tissue working together. That's what we want our prosthetic hand to achieve.

A human hand found on a playground in Ireland is believed to have been dropped by a bird flying overhead. The body part was dumped onto an empty schoolyard in northern Dublin around 10:30 a.m ...

Getty A human hand was discovered at a schoolyard in Ireland, and it is thought to have once belonged to a child, according to reports. In a statement obtained by PEOPLE, Gardaí — the national ...

The Last Stand," a character claps and sends a shock wave that knocks out an opposing army. Sunny Jung, professor of ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have come up with a better prosthetic hand that uses a hybrid design to carefully grip various objects with just the right amount of pressure.

Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson talks about how lab-grown muscles power a biohybrid hand for scalable prosthetics and research.

Researchers elucidate the complex physical mechanisms and fluid dynamics involved in a handclap, with potential applications in bioacoustics and personal identification, whereby a handclap could be ...

Johns Hopkins University engineers have developed a pioneering prosthetic hand that can grip plush toys, water bottles, and other everyday objects like a human, carefully conforming and adjusting its ...