Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Darth ...

Engineers at Caltech and Stanford University have developed a tiny prosthetic that enables jellyfish to swim faster and more efficiently than they normally do, without stressing the animals. The ...

From Tony Stark and fanciful fiction to the real-life prostheses under development in labs around the world, bionic body parts have long promised to enhance the physical capabilities of human beings.

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How can humanity better explore the unknown regions of Earth's vast oceans? Some scientists say they have found a promising new method: bionic jellyfish. A long-running project managed by scientists ...

No disrespect, but roboticists have got nothing on the animal kingdom. Birds cut through the air with ease, while our drones plummet out of the sky. Humans balance elegantly on two legs, while ...

Exactly what lurks beneath the ocean? Well, off the coast of Cornwall, giant, apricot-coloured jellyfish. The incredible creature, known as a barrel jellyfish, has been captured in a now-viral ...

In the world of deep-sea creatures, jellyfish are pretty innocuous. These blobs of sea-goo don't have any brains or pain receptors, they don't move particularly fast and they're not likely to harm you ...

Ginger Zee swims in a lake filled to the brim with 20 million jellyfish. — -- Welcome to Palau! The string of over three hundred tiny green islands, 3 degrees north of the equator in the North ...