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The article provides an overview of NASA's Lucy mission, which aims to explore the Trojan asteroids located in Jupiter's orbit. The spacecraft, also named Lucy, has encountered some challenges, but power is not a concern. Lucy has already made a close flyby of Earth and discovered a moon around an asteroid. The mission will contribute to our understanding of the Solar System's origins and asteroid formation. While the article provides limited details, it suggests the possibility of extending the mission beyond its initial visits to the Trojan asteroids. [Extracted from the article]

Theresa Hailey has been dreaming of qualifying for the Olympic Marathon Trials from the day she joined her club, a couple of years after she graduated from college. For the [...]

As temperatures rise, running doesn't need to be a total suffer-fest. I Here's what to expect and how to prepare for the summer ahead. However many bad-weather-will-make-you-tougher quotes we collect, [...]

THERE'S NO DENYING WE'RE GOING TO GET SLOWER. BUT SUCCESSFUL RUNNERS KEEP COMPETING BY ADAPTING AND REINVENTING THEMSELVES AT EACH MILESTONE. HERE'S HOW. RUNNING, IT IS OFTEN SAID, IS A [...]

EACH YEAR, STUDIES REPORT THAT SOME- where between one-fifth and one-half of runners get injured. The figure is hard to pin clown because sports medicine researchers aren't in agreement about [...]

A recently approved method for monitoring the purity of the popular dietary supplement ingredient chondroitin sulfate is beginning to see increased use, according to experts. It's a major step forward [...]

In a continuing endeavor to help the dietary supplements industry agree on and evaluate analytical methods to ensure quality, safety and regulatory compliance, a task force spearheaded by AOAC INTERNATIONAL [...]

Manufacturers of the joint health supplement chondroitin sulfate received a boost last August when AOAC International approved a method for testing the chondroitin content of raw materials and finished products. [...]

The article discusses getting rock sample from Mars by the year 2030. Topics discussed including primary goal was to finding metabolic traces of life on the Martian surface, performing microanalyses impossible to do with even the most sophisticated robotic laboratories, and the risk of accidentally coming down on top of Perseverance.

Three decades ago, a team of exercise physiologists led by Bertil Sjodin of Sweden's National Defense Research Institute put eight experienced distance and middle-distance runners on treadmills. First, the scientists [...]

ILLUSTRATE BY GEOFTICE Bobbi Jo was racing through the streets of Fairbanks when her iCoach blasted her out of her dream and into her bedroom darkness. 'Rise and shine,' said [...]

Several years ago, Alberto Salazar told me about a time he'd had an injury that was affecting his foot, keeping him from running. So, he had a special orthotic made [...]

WE CALLED HER BAREFOOT Bonnie. She showed up at a training run in Earth Shoes and clobbered most of the guys. Then she ditched even that minimal footwear for a [...]

Last spring, fresh into a new masters age group, I ran a 5K. Nothing unusual in that; I'd run spring 5Ks the year before ... and the year before that [...]

When Christy Runde lined up for last fall's California International Marathon, she had a string of good performances under her belt in recent years: 3:01:54, 3:05:18, 3:02:13, 3:07:55. She'd been [...]

In 1980, Alberto Salazar got a sore knee. He'd been training for the 10,000m Olympic trials, and developed an iliotibial band problem that just wouldn't go away. So, he did [...]

If there's a rule about deals with the devil, it's that you don't realize you're making one at the time. Especially when the devil in question walks with a cane [...]

But there is another part of the story A few years earlier, in 1970, a storm eroded a mudbank on the Makah Reservation, near the far northwestern tip of Washington state, revealing ruins of an ancient village that had been buried by a mudslide. On 26 January 1700, a giant earthquake somewhere between magnitudes 8.7 and 9.2, struck the coast, creating a tsunami that wreaked havoc all the way from British Columbia to Northern California. [Extracted from the article]