Endurance and ice swimmer Ryan Stramrood of South Africa has shown that mental strength and resilience are keys to success.

With the swimming program of the London Olympics now completed and medals awarded, many will now be casting their attention forward to Rio in 2016 and how competitors can be helped to swim faster, how ...

If anyone has earned the right to share the water with a shark, it's Michael Phelps. And his race against a great white is the buzziest event of Discovery Channel's 2017 Shark Week. But even with ...

For more than 300 years, most scientists have assumed that sperm "swim" through fluids by wriggling their tails back and forth like eels to propel themselves forward. But according to a new paper in ...

This morning, I woke up to the news of Chinese super swimmer Sun Yang being banned indefinitely from his college because he had an accident while driving without a license. And, just as it was ...

A breakthrough in fertility science by researchers from Bristol and Mexico has shattered the universally accepted view of how sperm 'swim'. More than three hundred years after Antonie van Leeuwenhoek ...

A research team led by the University of Tsukuba created the most complete recording to date of a human swimming underwater like an eel or lamprey. Using motion capture equipment and particle velocity ...