Scientists and sports stars are taking to the field with a 10-part video series that explains the physics and biology behind football, just in time for today's start of the NFL regular season.

LINCOLN, Neb. — Before football players at Nebraska finish a practice session, individualized data from their workouts pours into a sports science laboratory. The numbers impact vital decisions in a ...

NEWTON’S FOOTBALL: THE SCIENCE BEHIND AMERICA’S GAME By Allen St. John and Ainissa G. Ramirez Ballantine Books, $26, 272 pages Like many other people, one of my great passions is watching pro football ...

It’s a drama of rival against rival and a race against the clock. It’s precision, persistence, power. A gritty band of physicists and data specialists is locked in smash-mouth combat, a battle etched ...

The conversation about football and the future of the sport seems inextricably linked to concussions. Take former San Francisco 49ers linebacker Chris Borland’s decision to leave the National Football ...

Football officials watching slow-motion clips or drivers changing from motorways to 30mph zones could be unconsciously mis-judging speed - and the motivations behind a person's movements - because ...

The results of a recently published Boston University School of Medicine and VA Boston Healthcare System study show that football players who take up the sport before the age of 12 may develop ...

The FIFA World Cup finally kicks off today! Despite my team’s recent Champions League Final defeat to Gareth Bale, this huge global tournament still excites me. The problem for me is that the Venn ...