Do you want to be Superman? No amount of anabolic steroids or growth hormone will help you stop a plane in mid-air or leap tall buildings in a single bound. What you need is a battle suit designed by MIT’s Institute of Soldier Nanotechnologies.


They are working on clothes fitted with artificial “exomuscles” made from polymers that contract and expand in response to electrical charges. These devices mimic the twitch of human muscle fibers, but at a much slower rate.

The scientists hope their exomuscles will be 100 times stronger than the human analog.

If you’re impatient (these suits will probably take another decade to perfect) you could try another method. Scientists have been tinkering with genes; resulting in a mouse they nicknamed (surprise, surprise) ‘Mighty Mouse’...