Even as the sport’s top athletes compete for gold at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, a scientific mystery remains unsolved.

Mark Shegelski of the University of Northern British Columbia talks with podcast host Steve Mirsky about the physics of curling, currently taking its turn on the world stage at the Vancouver ...

In this, the latest installment of Smarter Every Day, Destin explores the controversial physics of curling. His opening observations on the spin of a circular interface’s effect on the path of ...

Football has been rocked by the “Deflategate” scandal, swimming banned full-body “super suits,” and now the sport of curling—yes, curling—has its own raging controversy. Dubbed ...

To study the physics of ribbon curling, researchers draped a thin ribbon across a blade, wrapping one end around a cylinder and attaching the other to a weight.

Because as it turns out, the physics of how curling works has still not been settled — although a pair of Canadian scientists believe they may finally have an answer.

Not just shuffleboard on ice. More than just sweeping. Curling is an Olympic phenomenon that takes a surprising amount of skill, strategy, balance, and, you guessed it, science! A look at som… ...

Apologies to our many Canadian readers, because this blog entry is not about that kind of curling – you can read about the physics of the winter sport here. Instead, I’m blogging about how things like ...

You may think that a simple occurrence such as a tree shedding its leaves or an everyday activity such as knitting or ribbon-curling does not involve a great deal of physics, but you would be wrong.

It turns out that curling involves some complex physics. [Destin] of Smarter Every Day has jumped in to find out why scientists on opposite sides of the Atlantic disagree about why curling stones c… ...

To physicists, curling presents the most puzzling conundrum in the Olympic Games.

Scientists unveil the first full description of how and why a ribbon curls when we scrape one side of it with scissors.