Category: Science
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Textured surface could create ‘driest ever’ super-hydrophobic material
Read for instance BBC, livescience and nature US engineers at MIT in Boston have developed a new way of texturing surfaces that they believe could make for the “most waterproof material ever”. Inspired by ridges found in nature on the wings of the Morpho butterfly and the veins of nasturtium leaves, they added tiny ridges…
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New Methods for Detecting Anabolic Steroids Lead to Hundreds of Positive Doping Tests
Read PR Newswire and ARD In recent months, two European doping control laboratories have – largely unnoticed – discovered an alarmingly high number of doping cases using improved detection methods. Based on information from the editorial staff who work on doping at the German public television broadcaster ARD, the laboratories in Cologne and Moscow have…
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Functional evaluation during swimming w/ K4b2 and Aquatrainer at Laboratório de Biomecânica do Porto
Source: Porto Biomechanics Laboratory http://www.labiomep.up.pt
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University of Portsmouth researchers say swimmers should train breathing muscles to improve performance
Read news.com.au Elite swimmers could perform better in the pool by training the muscles used for breathing, according to new research. Scientists at the University of Portsmouth have examined how muscle fatigue in the inspiratory muscles can affect overall performance. They believe that by incorporating specific training of these muscles into their regime, swimmers could…
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TedEd on the physics of fluids and why the size of a swimmer matters
Because I didn’t want to use their title. Interesting.
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Sport Science – Diana Nyad’s Cuba-to-Florida Swim
ESPN Sport Science’s John Brenkus examines the extreme endurance it took for Diana Nyad to swim 110 miles from Havana, Cuba to Key West, Fl in 53 hours.
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Swimming: A study of biomechanics using underwater motion capture
“A demonstration of how a combined underwater and land-based motion capture system can be used to analyse movements of swimmers. In this video, we’re analysing swimmers in Sweden’s national swim team, studying the start, dive and the first 15 meters underwater. Shot in BorÃ¥s Swimming Arena, Sweden.”
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Griffith University study: Swimming a smart move for kids
Children who swim are demonstrating more advanced cognitive and physical abilities than other children, according to world-leading research led by Griffith University. The findings of a four-year study by the Griffith Institute for Educational Research, Laurie Lawrence’s Kids Alive Swim Program and Swim Australia have surpassed expectations and indicate that swimming children have an advantage…