our Twitter (X) feedView our Youtube channelView our Instagram feedView our Substack feedView our Spotify feed Biomechanics, physiology and neuroscience combine at the Nike Sport Research Lab, where every part of the human body is studied — inside and out. Science and TechInnovationNeuroscienceAdaptabilityResilience We experience only one small slice of the ruliad. Stephen Wolfram explains.
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We may find alien life, but will we be able to accept the consequences? Science is never done.” Inside the Nike Sport Research Lab, Chief Science Officer Matthew Nurse and his team chase the questions that hold athletes back. Drawing on biomechanics, physiology and neuroscience, they start with the problems every athlete knows: fatigue, injury, the moment the body gives out.
Why do female athletes face three to five times the risk of ACL injury? What can an unexpected 4% efficiency gain teach us about the body as one connected system? And how do you turn those answers into something an athlete can feel on the field?
After 23 years at the frontier of sport science, Nurse lives by one rule: share what you find, and let others build on it. MATTHEW NURSE: You know, since the dawn of humanity, we have always been fascinated by our bodies. You can go back to cave paintings or the Dark Ages where people's skulls were being cut open to explore, to today where we're constantly trying to understand ourselves.
And yet people might be surprised at how little we still know about the human body. As much as we know, it continues to expose our ignorance. As soon as you learn something, two more questions arise or three more questions arise.
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