Limits of the Human Body by Jim Ottaviani and Dale DeForest is an upcoming nonfiction middle grade graphic novel about both the physiology and mental journey of athletes to push the limits of the ...
Recent scientific breakthroughs have revealed a fundamental limit to human endurance, a metabolic ceiling that caps sustained calorie burning during prolonged physical activity. This limit, which is ...
On a Saturday morning last month inside a hotel ballroom in Manhattan, Noah Lyles opened the calculator app on his phone and reduced the outer boundary of our species’ athletic performance to ...
Researchers tracked ultra-runner Joe McConaughey at the 2022 Cocodona 250 ultramarathon to measure how much energy the human body can burn during extreme endurance event. When ultra-runners lace up ...
Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy straightforward explanation. From the jut of the human chin to the curve of the outer ...
This show covers topics on how the body reacts to moments of extreme stress like being stuck in a cave or running away from forest fires. It is made up of four episodes that all concentrate on a ...
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