Lately, I have been inundated with ads on social media for those brightly-colored, weighted hula hoops that are attached around your waist. Maybe you’ve seen a barrage of them, too? With such a ...

A high-speed camera films a robotic hula hooper with an hourglass shape, which helps the hoop stay up. Credit: NYU’s Applied Mathematics Laboratory Successful hula hooping requires a body type with ...

Weighted hula hooping may help support weight loss by boosting calorie burning, increasing core strength, and reducing abdominal fat mass. But more research is needed. Hula hooping is an ancient dance ...

Hula hooping is so commonplace that we may overlook some interesting questions it raises: “What keeps a hula hoop up against gravity?” and “Are some body types better for hula hooping than others?” A ...

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NPR's Juana Summers talks with Jessica Yung and Emily Kwong of Short Wave about the physics of hula hooping, why some vaccines last longer than others, and a few moon launches to watch for in 2025. It ...