Science news articles about 'wimbledon'

... systems and is currently being used to make decisions in major tennis competitions such as Wimbledon. Technologies such as Hawk-Eye are meant to relegate line call controversies to the past, however, ...

... . In a farcical scene that threw another dollop of surrealism on five wacko tennis weeks in Europe, Rafael Nadal departed Wimbledon 2009 for good Friday night, almost in the dark and almost alone.

Tennis Grand Slam season is upon us once again with the French Open already over, and Wimbledon hot on its heels later in the month. Past studies have shown that tennis players outperform non-players ...

... and sweater-vested tennis players at the All-England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (aka Wimbledon), officials have hired marksmen and instructed them to shoot to kill. Previous attempts to control the ...

... , synthetic mahogany furniture that is indistinguishable from the natural material, but won't rot or be attacked by woodworm or artificial grass so good that they use it on Wimbledon's Centre Court."

... had a pronounced tendency for a forward, end-over-end "top spin," as if hit by a star Wimbledon tennis player, with the rate of tumbling strongly correlated with how its molecular rotation is aligned ...

... familiar to tennis fans as the powder used for the white lines to mark out the courts at Wimbledon. Scientists have discovered that extremely small, nanoparticle-sized forms of titanium dioxide can ...

... in the context of tennis when he saw a referee call overturned by a player's challenge during a Wimbledon match. On a tennis court, a ball could physically bounce in the court but be called out, or ...

... in Oxford on Monday evening, half an eye on the tennis as Andy Murray battled to reach the Wimbledon quarter final, when an email alert popped up at the bottom of my screen: "Large sulphur dioxide ...