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By Mary Catherine O'Connor This Saturday, October 24th, will be action-packed.Normally, this would not be news for ¹ú²ú³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ readers, for whom most weekendsare packed with biking, skiing, boating, etc. But this year, it's news. October24th is the much-anticipated international day of action, designed to…

Medical News Today reports that The School of Psychology at Belfast's Queen's University have been working with the Ulster rugby team by testing the player's visual perception through a range of virtual training scenarios.  The testing goes beyond a regular computer…

A recent study on cycling injuries presented at the 2009 Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons found that injuries at one trauma center had increased significantly over the past 11 years, reports Medical News Today. Even…

Identify your fitness flaws and the path to becoming a better athlete will be clear.

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Ben Sherwood talks about the secrets and science that can save your life.

This simple formula is seemingly impossible to master. So how does Kelly Slater do it year after year? And how can you?

EVEN TO A NONSCIENTIFIC OBSERVER LIKE ME, there are several obvious peculiarities about the life and work of Garrett Lisi. For instance, despite his being 40 years old and possessing a Ph.D. in theoretical physics, he has held few steady jobs—and those the likes of hiking guide and snowboarding instructor.

You bought a hybrid. That's swell. Now how about we all get down to business?

Rod Liberal was climbing in the Grand Tetons when the worst happened—a flash of lightning blasted him and a group of his climbing friends, leaving one dead. What's life like after high voltage rips through your body? You don't want to know.

With their nifty new windmills, tidy techno-homes, and enviro-crusading queen, the Dutch are busy creating the cutest little ecotopia on earth—while stoking a booming hypercapitalist economy. What does tiny Holland know that America is too big and dumb to figure out?

For three hours, a team of scientists collected samples from deep inside the crater of a seemingly peaceful volcano. Suddenly, an apocalyptic eruption shot white-hot rocks into the darkening sky. Nine people were killed high on the Colombian mountain that day, and volcanologist Stanley Williams barely escaped with his life. In an exclusive preview from the cont

Close encounters of the bear-human kind are skyrocketing, though actual attacks remain few and far between. Hopefully, new outreach education efforts will keep things that way.

It's springtime in Siberia, where slumbering mammoths are emerging from melting permafrost. Where great herds of TV crews roam the tundra in search of cloneable Ice Age DNA. Where Dolgan nomads traffic in Jurassic Park dreams. Where an unlikely French explorer-entrepreneur is chasing his strangely compelling vision of authentic wonder. Where the weirdness is ju

Thanks to improved safety standards and tandem flights, scores of acrophobes are giving hang gliding a second wind. And now, they're soaring in style—over the Golden Gate Bridge.

Meet the proud residents of the nation's arsenic capital. Now, will someone please explain to these good people why poison's a bad thing?

If you want to get high, there's still a price to be paid for invading the towering ranges—despite some newfangled shortcuts

Using cutting-edge techniques, three young mavericks set out to tackle one of the hardest routes in the Himalayas

Science is sprinting toward the super-enhanced athlete. Say hello to tomorrow's inhuman being.

Warning: Research at your own risk. Welcome to the new frontier, where scientists use extreme adventure skills in the wild pursuit of knowledge.

The 29er gives the flagging sport of sailing a facewash

Will Earth's most fragile unexplored ecosystems survive the age of adventure?

A noisy controversy roils the quest to catch the big one

The Pacific Rim's most explosive endurance sport combines speed, pain, and ancient tradition

Some of the most innovative boats ever built prepare for the fiercest race in sailing history

Alaskan eccentric Trigger Twigg attempts the first winter ascent of the world's tallest face

Can you feel it coming? Heat, hail, snow, rain. Wind, drought, flood, pain. Are you tired of waiting? Then hurry to Bangladesh, where the skies have already broken.

There’s nothing funny about motion sickness. Really. I mean it.

For 90 million years the turtles have massed to lay their eggs. This time they gathered for their own mass murder…