athletes

"We have a hard time overriding that desire to use as little energy as possible in any given task."

It doesn’t take 10,000 hours to excel at a sport.

Years of design, engineering, and testing have produced some very fancy kicks. Here's a look at a few neat pairs.

Depression is the most common cause of disability among young and middle-aged adults in the US.

Training, motivation, and luck are key to a long athletic career.

By exploring their limits, extreme athletes are more equipped to cope with physical and non-physical stresses.

As the sport takes its place in the Olympic lineup, biometrics and other types of data tracking help carve its future.

Joanna Harper’s work has catapulted her into a century-long debate about who gets to play women’s sports.

Skip the polar plunge and get some sleep instead

It’s hard to know exactly how much the hormone affects any given body, but what we do know suggests it’s not the end-all be-all.