Perhaps you've heard of the buckyball. That molecule is roughly soccer-ball-shaped, made of sixty carbon atoms, and its proper name- buckminsterfullerene- honors architecture visionary Buckminster ...

Rugby is a chaotic game at the best of times, so it can be difficult to gauge when illegal actions such as forward passes occur. That's where a new "smart rugby ball" comes in, which is packed with ...

Alternating from spheres to rugby balls is no longer the sole preserve of mercury isotopes, an international team at CERN's ISOLDE facility reports in a paper published in Physical Review Letters.

World Rugby is considering the use of a smaller ball in the women's game. The global governing body is collecting training and playing data on the size 4.5 ball which is about 3% smaller and 3-4% ...