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Giant Solar-Powered Artificial Waterfall Could Power Rio's Olympic Village
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Paralympic Athletes Try to Get a Performance Boost By Hurting Themselves
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How It's Made: Zika Edition
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Ashton Eaton Conquers 10 Olympic Events With Simple Smartphone Apps
Technology Ancient sport meets modern device It’s hard enough to excel in one sport—but 10? Decathlete Ashton Eaton, who won gold in London four years ago, is one of those rare specimens who can.
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Cupping At The Olympics: Is It A Fad?
Health Is the practice of cupping beneficial or does it just give a placebo effect? Michael Phelps and a host of gymnasts are walking around covered in bruises from a treatment called cupping, meant...
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Virtual Reality Training Turns Olympic Triathlon Course Into Motor Memory
Technology It helps to know the road before you go Gwen Jorgensen’s secret training tool isn’t her $10,000 road bike—it’s her mind.
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High-Speed Motion Capture Tech Is Helping Olympians Swim Better Than Ever
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Olympic Cupping, Saturn In Infrared, And More
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The Olympic Village Of The Future
Technology Tokyo 2020 will be the best ever for society Hosting the Olympics can put serious strain on a country’s infrastructure and finances, but Japan, home of the 2020 games, wants to make the...
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Why Does Pseudoscience Win At The Olympics?
Health Michael Phelps' "cupping" is just the latest quackery to hit the Games Any sufficiently technical and jargony science is often indistinguishable from magic--or for the Olympics, pseudoscience.
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Anti-Drone Lasers, Lemur Babies, And George Takei In Zero-G
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Robot Reporter Covered The Olympics For A Chinese News Outlet
Technology [Insert condescending joke about sportswriters here] A single bot produced 450 stories about results from the Olympic games.
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How It's Made: Zika Edition
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Cupping At The Olympics: Is It A Fad?
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Virtual Reality Training Turns Olympic Triathlon Course Into Motor Memory
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High-Speed Motion Capture Tech Is Helping Olympians Swim Better Than Ever
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