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So the World Curling Federation held a “Sweeping Summit” a few weeks ago, whereby eleven top curlers and scientists from Canada’s National Research Council tested over 50 different curling ...

When 1980s TV star Mr. T revealed his love of curling on Twitter this week and told his followers, "It's not as easy as it looks," he likely didn't know how right he was. Because as it turns out ...

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! Take its namesake ...

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 ...

By Hamish Johnston. 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 ...

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 Olympics.

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 ...

Curling, A Great Physics Mystery. Clip: Season 45 | 4m 32s. To physicists, curling presents the most puzzling conundrum in the Olympic Games. Aired 02/28/2018 ...

Anne Juel of the University of Manchester in the UK, meanwhile, helped us all become better present wrappers with her talk on the physics of “ribbon curling”. If you are not sure how exactly those ...

Physics of ribbon curling unravelled. Published. 15 March 2016. Share. close panel. Share page. Copy link. About sharing. ... only increased curling up to a point. This, Prof Juel explained, ...

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.