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

Four reasons SUVs are less safe and worse for the environment than a regular car

The controversial cars are under attack.

Tom Stacey, Senior Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management, Anglia Ruskin University • conversation
May 25, 2022 • ~6 min

SUVs: four reasons why they are less safe and worse for the environment than a regular car

The controversial cars are under attack.

Tom Stacey, Senior Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management, Anglia Ruskin University • conversation
May 25, 2022 • ~6 min

Fishing, strip clubs and golf: How male-focused networking in medicine blocks female colleagues from top jobs

By surveying over 100 people in academic medicine, a researcher found that women are consistently excluded from important networking activities like watching sports, drinking at bars and playing golf.

Jennifer R. Grandis, Distinguished Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of California, San Francisco • conversation
April 8, 2022 • ~9 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

When can you get back to sports after COVID?

As athletes gear up for spring sports, experts explain the heart health risk COVID poses and when it's okay to get back to your sport after having it.

Rosemary Pitrone-Emory • futurity
March 23, 2022 • ~13 min

Study: With masking and distancing in place, NFL stadium openings in 2020 had no impact on local Covid-19 infections

The findings may inform decisions on holding large outdoor gatherings amid future public health crises.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
March 23, 2022 • ~8 min

The 'hot hand' is a real basketball phenomenon – but only some players have the ability to go on these basket-making streaks

A study shows that a select group of NBA players really do go on hot streaks by making more shots in a row than statistics suggest they should.

Wayne Winston, Professor of Decision and Information Systems, Indiana University • conversation
March 22, 2022 • ~8 min

Sports betting: how in-play betting features could be leading to harmful gambling – new research

Many sports betting platforms now offer the opportunity for punters to place multiple bets in quick succession during the course of a match.

Jamie Torrance, Doctoral researcher and Lecturer in Psychology, University of South Wales • conversation
March 10, 2022 • ~7 min

How climate change threatens the Winter Olympics' future – even snowmaking has limits for saving the Games

Innovation made the 2022 Winter Games possible in Beijing, but snowmaking has limits in a warming climate.

Sunshine Swetnam, Assistant Professor of Natural Resources, Colorado State University • conversation
Feb. 19, 2022 • ~9 min

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