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Is It The Mustache?
Science Or could it be that steroids have a lasting effect? New York Yankee Jason Giambi was a great power slugger while he was using steroids. After his admission, Giambi slumped for several years,...
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Muscle-Linked Gene Therapy Pumps Up Monkeys
Technology Will gigantic genetically modified legs become the next performance enhancer for athletes? It's getting much harder to cheat at sports these days. Urine tests have been re-calibrated to...
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Drug Treatment Could Sharpen Adult Brains
Science Tests in mice show potential for reversing the slowdown in learning that comes with puberty Anyone who's tried to learn a second language knows that the earlier in life you start, the easier...
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We Need a League Of Performance-Enhanced Athletes
Science The use of performance enhancers in sports is inevitable. Celebrating it instead of banning it would make competition safer, more honest, and more fun Sports are supposed to be pure—that’s why...
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FYI: If I Did A Bag Of Lance Armstrong's Blood, Could I Bike Up A Mountain?
Science No surprise: performance enhancers enhance performance. But they might not give me the instant mountain-scaling boost I want. Hundreds of pages of fairly damning evidence came out against...
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John Oliver Discusses The Science And Politics Of Athletes Doping
Entertainment And explains why we shouldn't let athletes dope John Oliver is taking on the problem of doping professional sports.
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How do performance-enhancing drugs work?
Science A brief primer on doping, in light of the recent Olympic ban. It's mostly non-Olympians using anabolic steroids, so let's unpack what performance-enhancing drugs are actually doing to your body.
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