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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Australia’s first ever Olympic curling team scored an historic win but missed the medal podium at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing. It was a remarkable performance for a team lacking any ...

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 ...

CARSON CITY, Nev. – Canada, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States and Italy all took home medals for curling this Winter Olympics. But even though curling has been around for ...

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 ...