Recent scientific breakthroughs have revealed a fundamental limit to human endurance, a metabolic ceiling that caps sustained ...

Is there a limit to the number of calories you can burn? What about when you’re doing endurance exercise like a triathlon?

Professor Lewis Halsey as a participant in an experiment led by PhD student Chris Wolfe. The experiment primarily involves comparing the participant’s resting metabolic rate at room temperature and at ...

Today, there are some scientists who study human aging who say that 122 years of age is the at or near the limit of human longevity. The official record of a longest lived human (with verified ...

Ultra-endurance athletes can push their bodies to extraordinary extremes, but even they run into a hard biological wall.

At every major competition, whether Olympic Games or world championships, the media and observers eagerly await the athletes' performances and, above all, the breaking of records, particularly in ...

Limits of the Human Body by Jim Ottaviani and Dale DeForest is an upcoming nonfiction middle grade graphic novel about both the physiology and mental journey of athletes to push the limits of the ...

Some people may worry about being bitten by a snake or spider, but have you ever considered what would happen if a small ...