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PopSci Q&A: The U.S. Olympic Team's Chief Technologist Tells Us How Olympians...
Measuring Speed Biomechanical data is helping athletes train better. The Optojump system, seen in use here, is one of a suite of new tools Team USA has been using to measure and improve athletic...
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Summer Olympics: 2020
Summer Olympics: 2020 John MacNeill The modern Olympics have been running for 116 years, but many events remain unsafe and difficult to score. We propose ideas that might help solve some of the...
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Twitter (the Company) Has Been Behaving Very Strangely This Olympics
Twitter Olympics via The StandardIn the short time since the opening ceremonies of the London Games, we've seen the usual kind of Twitter-related stories--a Swiss soccer player banned for a racist...
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November 1926: Why Men Will Always Be Better at Sports Than Women
November 1926: "Building a New Race of Women" The new intent of women throughout the world in athletics is strikingly shown by this remarkable picture of 14,400 young girls in a stadium in Prague,...
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Exercise Tips From May 1941
Dek ArrayNo. A daily walk of about one hour gives the office worker an adequate amount of exercise. An occasional vigorous workout is not as desirable as the regular daily exercise which does not...
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Archive Gallery: The Secrets of Olympic Athletes
Dek ArrayThese English Olympians are basking under artificial sun lamps, hoping to get the health benefits of natural sunlight indoors. The treatment was developed by Lieutenant Colonel G. S....
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Archive Gallery: The Secrets of Olympic Athletes
Bendier Poles Give Vaulters More Height View Photo GalleryPart of the fun of watching the Olympics is living vicariously through your country's team. We like to think that if circumstances had been...
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Video: The Superhuman Biomechanics Behind Usain Bolt
The Physics Behind Usain Bolt NBC Learn It's now two Olympics running that Usain Bolt has dominated the 100-meter dash, breaking Olympic records both times and being crowned fastest man in the world....
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The Fully Electronic, Futuristic Starting Gun That Eliminates Advantages in...
The Omega E-Gun Starting Pistol Omega It's easy to take for granted just how insanely close some Olympic races are, and how much the minutiae of it all can matter. The perfect example is the...
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Olympics FYI: Why Is Cannabis Considered a Performance-Enhancing Drug?
Nick Delpopolo American judoka Nicholas Delpopolo, expelled from the 2012 Olympics for doping. Franck Fife/AFP/Getty Images On Monday, American judo competitor Nick Delpopolo was expelled from the...
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FYI: Does Training at High Altitudes Help Olympians Win?
Swiss Olympic Training Base Wikimedia Commons It's widely assumed that training on top of a mountain will give an athlete a major leg-up when competing closer to sea level. But it turns out it's not...
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May 1941: Eat Ice Cream Before Exercising or Replace it With Shopping
How Much Exercise Do We Need? Popular Science View Photo GalleryThis article originally appeared in the May 1941 issue of Popular Science. You can explore more of our archives--stretching back 140...
View ArticleInteractive Infographic: How Do Olympic Gold Medalists Compare?
Now that the Olympics are done, we can reflect on the big moments. (Usain Bolt's lightspeed 100-meter win and Michael Phelps's sunken-pirate-ship levels of gold come to mind.) But if we pull the...
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Paralympic Athletes Try to Get a Performance Boost By Hurting Themselves
Paralympics Opening Ceremony Wikimedia Commons We've heard of odd rules put in place (marijuana use comes to mind) to keep Olympians and Paralympians from gaining an unfair advantage, but this is odd...
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Haptic "Ghost" Armband Teaches Your Muscles To Behave Like Athletes' Muscles
Ghost Trainer Haptic and aural feedback could help vision-impaired athletes train better, by feeling rather than watching. Benedict Copping Training for the highest levels of a sport requires...
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A World Without The Winter Olympics
Chamonix 1924, Ski jump, Jacob Tullin Thams of Norway Olympic.org In 1924, at the French ski resort of Chamonix, the very first Winter Olympics got off to a precarious start. “A new thaw which set in...
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Uzbekistan Will Test Kids' Genes To Find Future Olympians
DNA To spot future olympians, it's common practice to wait to see if youngsters are actually good at any given activity. But the central Asian country of Uzbekistan will begin testing the genes of...
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The Fully Electronic, Futuristic Starting Gun That Eliminates Advantages in...
The Omega E-Gun Starting PistolOmegaIt's easy to take for granted just how insanely close some Olympic races are, and how much the minutiae of it all can matter. The perfect example is the traditional...
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Olympics FYI: Why Is Cannabis Considered a Performance-Enhancing Drug?
Nick DelpopoloFranck Fife/AFP/Getty ImagesAmerican judoka Nicholas Delpopolo, expelled from the 2012 Olympics for doping.On Monday, American judo competitor Nick Delpopolo was expelled from the...
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FYI: Does Training at High Altitudes Help Olympians Win?
Swiss Olympic Training BaseWikimedia CommonsIt's widely assumed that training on top of a mountain will give an athlete a major leg-up when competing closer to sea level. But it turns out it's not...
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