How to keep athletes safe from heat illness as high school sports practice begins amid a brutally hot summer

The first two weeks of preseason training are the toughest as players’ bodies acclimatize to running hard in the heat. An exercise scientist explains the risks.

Susan Yeargin, Associate Professor of Athletic Training, University of South Carolina • conversation
Aug. 1, 2022 ~9 min

How to keep teen athletes safe from heat illness as sports practice begins amid a brutally hot summer

The first two weeks of preseason training are the toughest as players’ bodies acclimatize to running hard in the heat. An exercise scientist explains the risks.

Susan Yeargin, Associate Professor of Athletic Training, University of South Carolina • conversation
Aug. 1, 2022 ~9 min


Heat risk and young athletes — rising temperatures lead to lawsuits and environmental injustice

Summer sports camps and pre-season training often have kids running hard in high heat and humidity. The combination can be deadly.

Natasha Brison, Assistant Professor of Sport Management, Texas A&M University • conversation
July 19, 2022 ~10 min

Too hot to handle: Climate considerations for youth sport during the hottest years on record

Summer sports camps and pre-season training often have kids running hard in high heat and humidity. The combination can be deadly.

Natasha Brison, Assistant Professor of Sport Management, Texas A&M University • conversation
July 19, 2022 ~10 min

Too hot to handle: Climate considerations for youth sport during the hottest years on Earth

Summer sports camps and August training sessions often have kids running hard in high heat and humidity. The combination can be deadly.

Natasha Brison, Assistant Professor of Sport Management, Texas A&M University • conversation
July 19, 2022 ~10 min

Cricket: what happens when an elite player like England's Jonny Bairstow is 'in the zone'

Great sporting feats are often achieved when an elite athlete is ‘feeling the flow’.

Paul John Taylor, Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology & Computer Science., University of Central Lancashire • conversation
June 17, 2022 ~7 min

MIT.nano Immersion Lab Gaming Program awards third annual seed grants

The NCSOFT-sponsored program will advance cutting-edge technologies for gaming and data visualization.

MIT.nano • mit
April 12, 2022 ~6 min

Concussion test may flag some of the wrong symptoms

A tool used to diagnose concussion may misidentify symptoms like fatigue and neck pain that are actually the results of intense exercise and not a brain injury.

Patti Verbanas-Rutgers • futurity
April 6, 2022 ~5 min


50-year-old muscles just can’t grow big like they used to – the biology of how muscles change with age

As people age, the chemical signaling pathways in muscles become less potent, and it gets harder to build muscle and maintain strength. But the health benefits of strength training only increase with age.

Roger Fielding, Associate Director of the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Professor of Medicine, Tufts University • conversation
Feb. 2, 2022 ~8 min

Almost all the snow at the Winter Olympics will be fake

Climate change may pose the biggest challenge at this year's Winter Olympics in Beijing. The Games will be the first to use almost 100% artificial snow.

Angela Turk-Georgia State • futurity
Feb. 1, 2022 ~5 min

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