How science turned J. J. Watt of the Houston Texans into the NFL's dominant force.
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Science Turns the NFL’s J. J. Watt Into a Tower of Power
The Tech-Powered Training That’s Forging Superathletes
How a San Francisco-area laboratory turned Jeremy Lin, Jason Castro, Teresa Noyola, and others into top athletes.
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How Baseball Is Building Better NFL Quarterbacks
From a biomechanical standpoint, the throwing motion for quarterbacks and pitchers is largely the same, so skills that help on the diamond can help on the gridiron.
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Science Would Like Some Rules for Genome Editing, Please
At an international meeting in Washington, the bigwigs of Crispr/Cas9 try to sort out the ethics of editing DNA.
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Shape-Shifting Neutrinos Grab the Nobel Prize in Physics
Neutrinos are the second-most abundant particle in the universe...and the most elusive.
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These Crappy Apollo Images Are What Make NASA So Great
The photos are presented seemingly as they were taken, with time-lapse captures taken through command module windows.
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If You’re an Average American, You Peed 4 to 7 Times Today
It's the middle of the road, but it's also the sweet spot. Take a moment to embrace the average.
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Fly Over Charon, Pluto’s Biggest Moon
Strap on your space suit and fly into a dwarf moon's Danger Zone.
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Parasite-Busting Drugs Take the Nobel Prize in Medicine
This year's winners discovered their therapies by sifting through huge repositories of bacteria from soil samples and isolating active compounds from herbs.
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Scientists in Antarctica Drink a Lot. Maybe Too Much
People drink a lot in Antarctica–maybe enough that the US government will have to send some breathalyzers.
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