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Stones are measured at the World Stone Skimming Championships, held on Easdale Island on September 25, 2016 in Easdale, Seil, Scotland. The championships marking its 20th year are held on the last Sunday in September each year on Easdale, which is the smallest inhabited island of the Inner Hebrides. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Scandal rocks international stone skipping contest

Pitcher throwing cricket ball towards batter with catcher in background

What’s the safest helmet?

A man playing snooker at a billiard club in Beijing. the blue ball is in front, with the yellow, white, red, and green balls in a row behind it

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How to get better at snooker… with physics

Competitors in indoor skydiving wind tunnel

The dizzying acrobatics of the World Indoor Skydiving Championships

Bowling ball striking pins

How to bowl a strike—mathematically

University of Kentucky basketball arena filled with people

Would you play basketball on a glass floor? This German startup thinks you should.

A general view exterior of Caesars Superdome, home of the NFL New Orleans Saints, on October 13, 2024 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

FAA creates ‘No Drone Zone’ around Super Bowl LIX

By Mack DeGeurin

Woman throwing disc golf disc in park

How to improve your disc golf game with a little physics

Amazon says its football AI can predict blitzes

Human playing against Google DeepMind ping pong robot

Watch Google’s ping pong robot beat humans at their own game

Concept art of Neom Stadium in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia wants to top its linear city with a sci-fi soccer stadium

Hundreds of thousand of athletes and visitors attending this year’s Olympics could have their movements analyzed by a real-time AI video surveillance tool.

Swimming, soccer, and surveillance: Paris preps for an AI-monitored Olympics

By Mack DeGeurin

The English women's athletics team, the appearance of the first UK female athletes at international Olympics, Sweden, Stockholm 1912.

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

The Olympics has been obsessed with sex for centuries

By Popular Science Team

Two robots playing soccer

Watch two tiny, AI-powered robots play soccer

An elderly person with short gray hair, wearing a pink shirt and jeans, with their hands on the shoulders of a kid they're teaching how to ride a bike. The child is wearing a red helmet and using a balance bike on a park path.

Pro tips for teaching a kid how to ride a bike

By Jean Levasseur

Ping Pong player wearing electrode cap playing against robot ball server

Human brains have to work overtime to beat robots at Ping-Pong

DribbleBot four-legged robot standing behind soccer ball

MIT’s soccer-playing robot dog is no Messi, but could one day help save lives

Super Bowl-qualifying Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts throws a perfect football spiral

Throwing the perfect football spiral is a feat in science

By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira

close up to person squatting down to lift weights at the gym

It’s time for your 2023 fitness journey—here’s how to get started

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

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Nutrition tracking can put you on the path to meet your fitness goals