In her award-winning essay, young British science writer Hasset Kifle from Stoke on Trent used her personal experience as a ...

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Over the course of the brand’s 65 year history, adidas has literally earned its stripes. The world of sneaker technology is fast moving, multifaceted, and highly competitive, but adidas has made the ...

No. 1 - The first official Nike shoe was a bust. You may be wondering, how does this make them awesome? But what it did was put the wheels in motion for what would become the most innovative company ...

A running shoe should protect the foot and the runner from injury. It provides stabilization of the foot and protects skin from damage. It should also limit potentially harmful impact forces as the ...

This weekend, Eliud Kipchoge, Lelisa Desisa and Zersenay Tadese will attempt to run a marathon in under two hours. It’s a bold – and some say impossible – goal, and a hell of a marketing campaign for ...

Running shoes, decked out with the latest cushioning, motion control and arch support technologies, may not be as beneficial to your feet and joints as you might think. A new study finds that running ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Mark Patrick Taylor is a Chief Environmental Scientist at EPA Victoria and an Honorary Professor at Macquarie University. Gabriel Filippelli ...

Elizabeth Armstrong Moore is based in Portland, Oregon, and has written for Wired, The Christian Science Monitor, and public radio. Her semi-obscure hobbies include climbing, billiards, board games ...

Although most of our clothes fold and crease with our bodies as we move, our shoes maintain the same shape and appearance pretty much all the time. With that fact in mind, scientists are now ...