Tag: Muscles
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...
When men started to obsess over six-packs
Conor Heffernan, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts
The cultural obsession with six-pack abdominals shows...
Whether slow or fast, here’s how your metabolism influences how many...
Terezie Tolar-Peterson, Mississippi State University
It’s a common dieter’s lament: “Ugh, my metabolism is so slow, I’m never going to lose any weight.”
When people talk...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
