How the U.S. Marine Corps Remains the ‘Best of the Best’

The Marine Corps has a desire to maximize the number of Marines who pass selection, without compromising their fitness standards or making the course any easier. If they could predict who would be likely to fail or pass before Recon selection, training would be more...

The Rise of Biometrics in Sports

“We’re not just trying to preserve an individual in the short term. We want methods that will preserve that individual into their postelite athlete life. One has to think about what is going to ultimately affect the health of that individual—including their...

Healing the Invisible Wounds of War with Virtual Reality

Since 9/11, nearly three million service members have deployed to war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan—about half of them more than once. Now, an innovative, evidence-based approach to treating PTSD is reaching more veterans than ever before. Called “virtual reality...