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| Win Snowball Fights With Better Strategy and Snow Tech PM asked snow experts to tell us what makes the best packing snow, how to build a solid snow fort and what tools you can use to dominate this winter.
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| With Makeshift Bat Cave, MLB to Scan Broken Wood for Fan Safety Recent seasons have seen the number of broken bats skyrocket, with splintered pieces of ash and maple sometimes flying into stands to injure fans. MLB-recruited scientists to crunch the numbers for solutions to keep stadiums safe.
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| 10 Steps in the High-Tech Evolution of Pro Football Helmets In this exclusive kickoff weekend excerpt from the new PM book How a Curveball Curves: The Incredible Science of Sports, track the high-tech history of brain safety on the gridiron, from "head harnesses" to face masks.
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| After 8 Golds for Phelps, 8 Big Questions on Beijing's Super Pool What makes Michael Phelps so much better than swimmers of yesteryear? PM crunches the numbers to answer these and other questions—and debunk some of the myths that have cropped up around them.
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| Beijing Olympics Blast Off with High-Tech Flair: Gallery China staged a power-packed opening ceremony for this summer's already high-tech Olympic games that will set the standard of excellence (or extravagance) for future ceremonies.
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| Beijing’s Smog Effect, Next-Gen Doping Tests & Fenway Park’s Scoreboard: Science of Sports PODCAST A leading expert explains why every Olympic athlete may be in danger from Beijing's smog. Plus, how independent tests could rid pro cycling of banned substances, and Boston's low-tech scorekeeper takes us behind the Green Monster.
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| Olympic Science 101: Physics & Physiology Behind the Games Why is Michael Phelps the ultimate athlete? How does Nastia Liukin pull off those incredible uneven-bar dismounts? We examine the physics and physiology behind the games. (Published in the August 2008 issue)
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| March Math-ness: Hoops Geek Formulates Nearly Perfect Bracket Ken Pomeroy's Web-crawling, data-mining, Pythagorean-based bracket software is 46-for-60 so far in this year's tournament, including a perfectly picked Final Four. Here's how it works.
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| Tennis Physics: Anatomy of a Serve No. 5 ranked Andy Roddick has the world’s fastest tennis serve—his 155-mph scorcher in 2004 set the record—but he doesn’t like to talk about it. When he first met Patrick McEnroe, his Davis Cup coach, he said: “Whatever you do, don’t say anything to me about my serve. If I think about it, I’m in tro... (Published in the September 2007 issue)
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| Baseball Physics: Anatomy of a Home Run In less time than it takes to blink an eye, pro hitters routinely achieve the extraordinary. (Published in the June 2007 issue)
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