There are many factors that set elite runners apart from other runners, including training volume, physiology, tendon function and running technique.
Billy Bridges of Canada and Kevin McKee of the U.S. in action during the para ice hockey gold medal game at the Paralympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang.
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Athletes competing in para hockey at the Paralympic Games in South Korea have unique biomechanical skills. A Canadian researcher explains how beginners in the sport can improve their skating skills.
Latching springs provide a boost.
Yun Seong Song et al (2017)
These birds spend long periods, often asleep, standing on one leg. Is it passive biomechanics or active nervous system control of their muscles that allows them to do easily what’s impossible for us?
Springy soles, stiffer shoes, lightweight materials. When does shoe design give some runners an unfair advantage?
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Alexis Noel, Georgia Institute of Technology e David Hu, Georgia Institute of Technology
How do a frog’s tongue and saliva work together to be sticky enough to lift 1.4 times the animal’s body weight? Painstaking lab work found their spit switches between two distinct phases to nab prey.
Ravi Ashwin celebrates the wicket of England batsman Joe Root in Mumbai.
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Even the best engineered filters get clogged eventually. Fish mouths have evolved structures that create unique fluid dynamics patterns that solve that problem.
Easy to remember how to do, hard to figure out how it’s working.
Rob Bertholf
The way sea lions swim is unique among fish and marine mammals. Their technique provides a biomechanical model to design agile underwater vehicles… but first we have to figure out how they do it.
Keeping it together. Staying out the wind. the TTT at the Giro d'Italia.
Aukje de Vrijer
Executive Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science and Director of the Intelligent Polymer Research Institute, University of Wollongong