Dirac's Plate Trick, the Hairy Ball Theorem and more: Research probes physics of irregular objects on inclined planes
How gravity causes a perfectly spherical ball to roll down an inclined plane is part of the elementary school physics canon.
A Grip on Sports: Baseball is a timeless game that connects generations, a connection that renews and reinvents itself today
A GRIP ON SPORTS • Time begins today. It’s baseball’s Opening Day. (Or opening day if you aren’t a believer.) From this day ...
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The Moving Story of Bringing Baseball Back to Manzanar, Where Thousands of Japanese Americans Were Incarcerated During World War II
In honor of his mother and others imprisoned at the internment camp, baseball player Dan Kwong has restored a diamond in the ...
Verdict is in on MLB's ABS challenge system: 52% overturned in spring training
The challenge system will not be used in MLB games this season, but there is a good chance it will be implemented in 2026.
The brothers Bednar: Two fairy-tale pitching careers, two MLB crossroads
David, 30, is coming off the worst season of his career. Will, 24, has been besieged by injuries. But they haven’t lost hope.
Imaginary runners with real implications for Rays hitters this spring
John Romano | Hitting coach Chad Mottola introduced a rather unique plan to improve Tampa Bay’s situational hitting prowess.
Baseball’s Wealth Gap Has Become a Chasm—and Is Stretching the Sport to Its Breaking Point
As a new season gets under way, the financial disparity between MLB’s 30 teams has never been greater, alienating fans, ...
The Numbers Behind MLB's Spring Training Experiment With ABS Challenge System
The system was used in 288 spring training games, with an average of 4.1 challenges per game, compared to 3.9 per game in ...
Former hockey player Jonathan Liesen, also a quarterback, powers up for Reavis in baseball. ‘Fell in love with it.’
Former hockey player Jonathan Liesen, also a quarterback, powers up for Reavis in baseball. ‘Fell in love with it.’ Reavis’ ...
If baseball wants its pitchers focused on durability, the rules of the game might have to change
Bold decisions to change Major League Baseball’s longstanding rules quickened the pace of games and revived the popularity of ...
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Chemical physics articles from across Nature Portfolio
Chemical physics is concerned with the application of the concepts and theories of physics to the analysis of chemical systems and their physical behaviour. While also at the interface between ...
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Department of Physics
Physics is the science of matter and of the forces that hold our universe together. Scientific achievements in physics can affect philosophical thinking and our entire worldview, but physics research ...