Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Baltimore Orioles clubhouse worker Sammy Sanchez rubs mud on a new baseball as the team prepares for the start of spring training, ...

Since the 1940s, baseball players have been spreading a special kind of “magic mud” on new baseballs to reduce the slick, glossy shine and give pitchers a firmer grip. Now, scientists at the ...

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), researchers at ...

The science pros at TKOR make magic mud to demonstrate non-Newtonian fluids. Nancy Guthrie update: Range Rover SUV seized by FBI Canada has a secessionist movement on its hands. Its supporters thank ...