News tagged with softball
High school football, wrestling athletes suffer highest rate of severe injuries
Sep 02, 2009 |
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High school football and wrestling athletes experienced the highest rate of severe injuries, according to the first study to examine severe injuries - injuries that caused high school athletes to miss more than 21 days of ...
Analysis of windmill pitching shows risk of injury to biceps in softball players
Mar 24, 2009 |
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Contrary to common belief, softball pitching subjects the biceps to high forces and torques when the player's arm swings around to release the ball, according to an analysis of muscle firing patterns conducted at Rush University ...
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When the rules of the game are broken: Research studies sports injuries related to illegal activity
Feb 29, 2008 |
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A study published in the February issue of Injury Prevention estimates that more than 98,000 sports injuries in U.S. high schools in 2005-2007 were directly related to an action that was ruled illegal activity by a refere ...
Study: perception of hole size influenced by performance
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 07, 2008 |
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Golfers who play well are more likely to see the hole as larger than their poor-playing counterparts, according to a Purdue University researcher.
Australian jellyfish range grows larger
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Aug 20, 2007 |
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U.S. marine scientists have discovered the range of the Australian spotted jellyfish (Phylllorhiza punctata) now extends from Texas to North Carolina.
Shooting Marbles at 16,000 mph
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 14, 2007 |
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NASA scientist Bill Cooke is shooting marbles and he's playing "keepsies." The prize won't be another player's marbles, but knowledge that will help keep astronauts safe when America returns to the Moon in ...
Invasive Australian jellyfish sighted in Gulf of Mexico in summer 2007
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Aug 17, 2007 |
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The invasive Australian jellyfish, Phyllorhiza punctata, first reported in great quantities in the Gulf of Mexico in 2000, has made a vigorous reappearance this summer in waters from southwestern Louisiana ...
Nano-Softball Made of DNA
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 01, 2008 |
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For quite some time, DNA, the stuff our genes are made of, has also been considered the building material of choice for nanoscale objects. A team led by Günter von Kiedrowski at the Ruhr University in Bochum has now made ...
Researchers make new finding about how memory is stored
Apr 23, 2008 |
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Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine are the first to show that the location of protein-destroying “machines” in nerve cells in the brain may play an important role in how memories are formed – a finding ...
Double hand transplant patient recovering well
May 08, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Valarie Kepner was so excited at learning last fall that doctors might be able give her husband new hands that she called the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center without telling him first.
First of its kind study compares high school knee injuries by sport and gender
May 22, 2008 |
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Knee injuries, among the most economically costly sports injuries, are the leading cause of high school sports-related surgeries according to a study conducted at the Center for Injury Research and Policy (CIRP) of the Research ...
How Martian winds make rocks walk
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 08, 2009 |
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Rocks on Mars are on the move, rolling into the wind and forming organized patterns, according to new research.
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