RALEIGH – In two new studies, North Carolina State University researchers designed and tested a series of textile fibers that can change shape and generate force like a muscle. In the first study, the ...

Building muscle isn’t just about nailing down a solid leg day and hammering your chest, back, and arms. You need the right fuel to maximize gains. While a solid diet packed with protein, nourishing ...

IT'S MUCH HARDER to build new muscle tissue than it is to maintain what you’ve already built, especially as you get older. If ...

Muscles develop a lasting molecular “memory” of past resistance exercises that helps them bounce back from long periods of inactivity. By Gretchen Reynolds After two years of Covid-19 and its ...

A question left unanswered in a biologist’s lab notebook for 40 years has finally been explained, thanks to a little fish that couldn’t wriggle its tail. New research from the University of Oregon ...

The shape of the gluteus maximus muscle in the buttocks changes in different ways with aging, lifestyle, frailty, osteoporosis and type 2 diabetes, and these changes differ between women and men, ...

New research has associated fitness levels and the quality of the muscles in the buttocks with risk of developing type 2 diabetes (Pixabay/Nordseher) Recent research made associations between the ...

Graphene Based bimorphs from Charles Walcott on Vimeo. Jan. 4 (UPI) --Physicists at Cornell University have designed and built a muscle to power tiny cell-sized robots capable of conducting ...

Robotics experts have made a robot exoskeleton that can rapidly change its shape upon sensing chemical or thermal changes in its environment. And, they claim, these microscale machines -- equipped ...