Stephanie Coral Browitt escaped death following the 2019 White Island eruption. After recovering for years from third-degree burns that covered 70 percent of her body and eight finger amputations, she ...

Technological advances that lead to fairer, more accurate calls are often seen as triumphs. But new technology doesn’t mean ...

Players’ and managers’ efforts to work the umpires to contract or expand the strike zone have long been a part of the game.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Arthur Daemmrich, Arizona State University and Eric S. Hintz, Smithsonian ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Baseball fans tuning into spring training games may have noticed another new wrinkle in a sport that’s experienced a host of changes in recent years. Batters, pitchers and ...

For example, innovative “full-body” swimsuits contributed to a wave of record-breaking finishes in the sport between 2000 and 2009. But uneven access to the newest gear raised the specter of ...