Once reserved for elite runners, the best carbon-plated running shoes are becoming increasingly popular for anyone trying to shave a few seconds—or, if you’re lucky, a few minutes—off your PR. The ...

Today in material science news we have a report from [German Science Guy] about a new supermaterial which is as strong as steel and as light as Styrofoam! A supermaterial is a type of material ...

Carbon plate running shoes are used for running certain distances. They incorporate a carbon fiber sheet in the midsole, which results in improved performance and efficiency for the runner.

With its big-rebound super foam midsole and carbon plate, boasting 4 percent efficiency gains, that shoe's revolutionary design triggered a running shoe arms race as rival brands adapted the ...

It’s Nike’s most advanced sneaker, with a powerful midsole made of Nike’s bouncy ZoomX foam, a full-length carbon plate for propulsion, and a few trampoline-like Air Zoom pods strategically placed for ...

Running I just ran in this Puma carbon plate racer that breaks all the rules — and it's one of the strangest shoes I've ever tried Running I ran 50 miles in the Puma Fast-R Nitro Elite 3 and it ...

That’s featherweight territory. And yet somehow, it still packs in a carbon plate, next-gen foam and serious race pedigree. Alongside the Ray, ASICS is also launching the Metaspeed Sky Tokyo and ...

Instead of a full-length carbon plate, the Ray features a shortened plate from midfoot to forefoot, designed to optimize energy return for forefoot and midfoot strikers. (Heel strikers may not ...