Science news articles about 'sumo wrestlers'

... as one of the most common and pathogenic, causing a skin disease in sumo wrestlers," said Dr Kazuo Yanagi from the National ... if this is the case, so we studied the spread of the disease in sumo wrestlers in Tokyo." The researchers looked at samples ...

... . Researchers have studied the spread of the disease among sumo wrestlers in Japan and have discovered that a new strain of the virus could be even more pathogenic, according to an article published in the October ...

After years of fat-fingered struggles to type emails and text messages on tiny mobile phone keypads, Japan's sumo wrestlers have been given Apple's iPad to pound with their jumbo-sized digits.

(AP) -- Sumo wrestlers were the main inspiration behind Wii Fit, Nintendo's latest attempt at getting you off the couch when you play video games.

... pounds, but can only lift up to 135 pounds, so the sumo wrestler retirement home might have to wait for a newer model before picking one up. The robot is covered ...

... . "They push each other back and forth like sumo wrestlers," said lead author Damian Elias of the University of California at Berkeley. This fancy footwork allows ...