Nancy Bertler and her team took a freezer to the coldest place on Earth, endured weeks of primitive living and risked spending the winter in Antarctic darkness, to go get ice—ice that records our climate's past and could ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 6, 2013
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When a baseball announcer rattles off your favorite player's batting average with two outs and runners on first and third, he's not pulling that figure from the back of his mind. There's a good chance that timely information ...
Business
Apr 20, 2018
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Yahoo said Thursday it reached a deal with the National Hockey League to stream hockey games online for free with no subscription required.
Business
Mar 10, 2016
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Cheating in baseball is as old as the game itself, and pitchers' modifying the ball's surface is part of that long history. Adding to the lore of cheating is a new scandal involving pitchers who may be applying sticky substances—what ...
General Physics
Jun 15, 2021
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There are pitchers in Major League Baseball (MLB) who have had 30-year careers, but as UC Riverside demographer David Swanson points out, these are extreme outliers and often the stars of the game who receive most of the ...
Mathematics
Jul 17, 2018
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For aspiring major leaguers, one of the most painful aspects of learning the game is dealing with the sting of the bat's handle when a baseball is hit incorrectly.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Jul 17, 2013
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For most teams, Major League Baseball's season opens today, and for some diehard fans there are few things more sacred than statistics.
Mathematics
Apr 5, 2010
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Max Scherzer leads Major League Baseball in wins. As a pitcher for the Detroit Tigers, he hasn't lost a game this season. His 6-foot, 3-inch frame is a telling example of constructal-law theory, said Duke University engineer ...
Other
Jul 8, 2013
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Baseball is considered relatively safe, but its reputation was established in the era of wooden bats. Aluminum bats, introduced in the 1970s, had an enormous “trampoline effect” and made the game more dangerous.
Other
Feb 20, 2012
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Around the middle of the 2015 season, something odd started happening in Major League Baseball (MLB): Home runs surged. They surged again in 2016, from the previous year's 4,909 to 5,610, and then again in 2017 to an all-time ...
Mathematics
Jul 17, 2018
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