When most people think of computer simulations, they imagine sleek graphics or Hollywood-style animations. But for Tayfun Tezduyar, the James F. Barbour Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rice ...

Monitoring brain blood flow in a volunteer with the new functional interferometric diffusing wave spectroscopy device invented at UC Davis. The new technology promises easier, cheaper measurements of ...

For more than a century, scientists have known that blood vessels can rhythmically contract and relax in a process called vasomotion. In the brain, these subtle oscillations are thought to help ...

A few athletes have been wearing bands around their arms and legs while they exercise. Experts discuss what these bands do for the Olympians. A few U.S. Olympic athletes have been spotted exercising ...

Restricting your blood flow sounds like a dangerous thing to do, but it’s exactly what some Olympians, athletes, and surgery and physical therapy patients have done to strengthen their muscles and ...