The research “gives a nice, scientific explanation at a range of length scales,” says Gareth McKinley, a rheologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who wasn’t involved with the ...

While it can’t be credited with winning the Los Angeles Dodgers their eighth World Series championship, baseball’s “magic mud ...

Baseball has a muddy secret. For over 80 years, a mysterious mud sourced from an undisclosed New Jersey river location has ...

The unique properties of baseball’s famed “magic” mud have never been scientifically quantified — until now. In a new paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS ...