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 “Broomgate,” much of ...

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 some of the ...

Curling is somewhat of a mystifying sport to some of us - how really do you play and are there any rules? Let's take a closer look and learn about the physics involved in this unique sport that you ...

To physicists, curling presents the most puzzling conundrum in the Olympic Games. To physicists, curling presents the most puzzling conundrum in the Olympic Games. Aired 02/28/2018 National Corporate ...

Every four years, the Winter Olympics enthralls and intrigues onlookers with the popular if inexplicable Scottish sport curling. The first confusing bit is why a sport in which players use brooms to ...

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 ...

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 curl ...

Before I went curling last month with my partner’s family at the Grand Forks Curling Club in North Dakota, I figured that getting the basics down would be simple enough. Push a heavy rock hard enough ...

Canadians take curling very seriously — indeed, the CBC has a website dedicated to the sport where you can catch up on the latest results. In a few days Canada will be hosting the Winter Olympics, and ...

The spike in curling interest prompted David Letterman Wednesday night to say, "it's all the excitement of shuffleboard curling plus household chores. You know it's just …" In his top 10 list of ...

To physicists, curling presents the most puzzling conundrum in the Olympic Games. National Corporate funding for NOVA is provided by Carlisle Companies. Major funding for NOVA is provided by the NOVA ...