We’re at the tail end of baseball season right now, two games into the World Series between the Houston Astros and the Atlanta Braves. My (not quite) ten-year-old son, known to the Internet as “The ...

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Long before major league hitters tapped their helmets to challenge strike calls, a team of engineers at Washington State ...

Sports science and exercise constitute an interdisciplinary endeavour that applies principles from physiology, biomechanics, psychology, nutrition and data science to understand and optimise human ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on Feb. 14, 2020. The Phillies have promoted Sam Fuld to general manager, the team announced Tuesday. Fuld was previously the Phillies’ director of ...

Washington Nationals infielder Paul DeJong always had two loves: baseball and science. Those two interests had long competed for his time, until finally they converged when he was at Illinois State.

Athletes are always searching for something to give them even the slightest edge on the field. Enter the so-called “torpedo bat.” The new, odd-looking bat that has taken the baseball world by storm ...

The forces that cause sneakers to squeak also create mini-earthquakes (shoe-quakes, if you will) and tiny lightning bolts.