While it can’t be credited with winning the Los Angeles Dodgers their eighth World Series championship, baseball’s “magic mud ...

For millennia, humans had one obvious and reliable source of light—the sun—and we knew the sun was essential for our survival ...

Baseball mud is part of the game’s mythology. Since the 1950s, it has been dug up along the Delaware River and applied to ...

The unique properties of baseball’s famed “magic” mud have never been scientifically quantified — until now. In a new paper ...

Douglas Jerolmack, a professor of earth and environmental science at the University of Pennsylvania, on new research suggesting that mud used on baseballs could also benefit the development of ...

Advancements in nuclear physics may soon enable the creation of stable, superheavy nuclei, paving the way for new materials ...

Emily Elizabeth Larson Share Do you believe in magic? Danny Rudnick does. But he also believes in science. This is hardly surprising. Danny Rudnick lives in both worlds. By day he is Mr. Rudnick ...