When Aaron Leanhardt was a graduate student in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he was part of a research team that cooled sodium gas to the lowest temperature ever recorded ...

Can anything defuse Major League Baseball's hottest hitting weapon? The so-called torpedo bats − the MLB-legal, tailor-made bats with weight distribution toward the barrel − have become the ...

Aya Goldshtein, Omer Mazar, and Yossi Yovel have spent many evenings standing outside bat caves. Even so, seeing thousands of bats erupting out of a cave and flapping into the night, sometimes in ...

How can we understand a behavior if we don't study it in action?" Stepping into the bat cave For the first time, Goldshtein and colleagues have collected data from wild bats emerging from a cave ...

The New York Yankees created a lot of social media buzz after setting a franchise record nine-home run game on Saturday — with many players using what many noticed are unusually shaped baseball ...

For the MIT-educated physicist behind the torpedo bat, it's more about the talent of the players than their lumber at the plate. The torpedo model — a striking design in which wood is moved ...

EARLY IN THE 2023 season, Aaron Leanhardt started asking New York Yankees hitters what they needed to perform better. He was a minor league hitting coordinator for the team, and with league-wide ...

A number of Yankees are utilizing a novel bat shape — a seemingly inflated barrel that is thickest and heaviest where the player most frequently makes contact, then narrowing at the end. The ...

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