Stop risking your knees with deep squats; fitness experts reveal how a standard chair can unlock elite leg strength and total ...

Engineers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a new class of protein-based fibers modeled on the aligned ...

Ever notice how some people seem to build muscle eating whatever they want, while you’re over here measuring every ounce of chicken breast and still struggling to see results? Here’s what’s really ...

Some workouts leave you buzzing, muscles pumping, and energy on high. Others leave you wondering if you made any progress at all. The difference often comes down to more than just the weight on the ...

Regular activity not only strengthens muscles but can bolster our bones, blood vessels, and immune system. MIT engineers have now found that exercise can also have benefits at the level of individual ...

The connections between the nervous system and muscles develop differently across the kingdom of life. It takes newborn humans roughly a year to develop the proper muscular systems that support the ...

The flow of water within a muscle fiber may dictate how quickly muscle can contract, according to a new study. The flow of water within a muscle fiber may dictate how quickly muscle can contract, ...

Using powerful new visualization technologies, researchers have captured the first 3-D images of the structure of a key muscle receptor, providing new insights on how muscles develop across the animal ...

Muscles are made to move. Stretching and contraction stimulate biochemical pathways within muscle that maintain tissue health. When movement slows—when a broken limb is immobilized in a cast, for ...

A University of Massachusetts Amherst kinesiologist has received a five-year, $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to advance his research on how myosin molecules—molecular ...