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Tag: strength

Effect of swearing on strength and power performance (study)

April 4, 2019 Martin Gardiner

Dr Richard Stephens, of Keele University, UK, was a co-recipient of the 2010 Ig Nobel Peace Prize for confirming the widely held belief that swearing relieves pain. Since then, his work on swearing has continued, and he’s the lead author of a 2018 paper for the journal Psychology of Sport and Exercise (Volume 35, March 2018, Pages […]

Research Newscurse, Pain, power, strength, swearing, words

Tongue-Strengthening Exercises for Rats

May 25, 2011 Marc Abrahams

Investigator Ben Broughton writes: “I came across this paper while looking to settle an argument about whether muscles need hinges to produce significant power. The researchers fabricated an apparatus to measure the force of a rat’s tongue. The paper explains that with training, a young rat can increase the force its tongue can produce by 250%, […]

Research NewsPhysiology, Rats, self-improvement, strength, tongue

The spider and the 747

July 15, 2009 Marc Abrahams

It is suggested that one strand of pencil thick spider silk can stop a Boeing 747 in flight. So says the study “Molecular spring: from spider silk to silkworm silk,” Xiang Wu, Xiang-Yang Liu, Ning Du, Gang-Qin Xu, Bao-Wen Li, arxiv.org/abs/0902.3518, 2009. The study tries to explain why this is so (or at least approximately […]

Research News747, silk, spider, spider silk, strength
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