Tag: Muscles
Your brain can be trained, much like your muscles – a...
Joanna Fong-Isariyawongse, University of Pittsburgh
If you have ever lifted a weight, you know the routine: challenge the muscle,...
Wearing a weighted vest can promote bone health and weight loss,...
Kristen Marie Beavers, Wake Forest University
Health and fitness trends come and go, and many fads don’t deliver on...
Forget ‘Man the Hunter’ – physiological and archaeological evidence rewrites assumptions...
Sarah Lacy, University of Delaware and Cara Ocobock, University of Notre Dame
Prehistoric men hunted; prehistoric women gathered. At...
What are muscle knots? An exercise physiologist explains what those tight...
Zachary Gillen, Mississippi State University
Imagine you’ve just completed a tough upper-body workout. Your muscles feel a bit tired,...
Tour de France: How many calories will the winner burn?
John Eric Goff, University of Lynchburg
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Imagine you begin pedaling from the start of Stage...
50-year-old muscles just can’t grow big like they used to –...
Roger Fielding, Tufts University
There is perhaps no better way to see the absolute pinnacle of human athletic abilities...
Gut microbes help hibernating ground squirrels emerge strong and healthy in...
Hannah V. Carey, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Matthew Regan, Université de Montréal
Ground squirrels spend the end of summer...
Sea otters demonstrate that there is more to muscle than just...
Traver Wright, Texas A&M University; Melinda Sheffield-Moore, Texas A&M University, and Randall Davis, Texas A&M University
Life in the...
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Raccoons break into liquor stores, scale skyscrapers and pick locks –...
Kelly Lambert, University of Richmond
When a curious raccoon broke into an Ashland, Virginia, liquor store in December 2025,...
