Becoming Bionic and Other Ways Science Is Making Us Super

Becoming Bionic and Other Ways Science Is Making Us Super uses superheroes as a starting point for examining ways science can extend human capabilities. It connects familiar imagined powers, such as regeneration, flight, invisibility, and superstrength, with real scientific developments that push people beyond the limits of the bodies they were born with. It explores the point at which science-fiction ideas become real scientific advances.