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Cyborgs entered popular culture in the 1980s – remember action hero Jean-Claude van Damme in Cyborg ? New interfaces between surgery, robotic engineering, and electrobiology are helping them become reality. A cyborg, in medical terms, is a person who has robotic parts, such as limbs, that can be controlled by the brain, and in some instances, “felt” in the same...

An MIT professor and a surgeon have developed a prosthetic limb that feels sensations and is controlled by the brain and body. The limb improves amputees’ quality of life, and could lead to augmented ‘cyborgs’.

A Yale astrophysicist who explores cosmology, gravitational lensing, and black hole physics, Natarajan is honored for her work mapping the unseen universe.