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 ...

A new book is championing science backed research to help develop women’s football. Women’s Football: From Science to High Performance provides a thorough, yet straightforward and accessible, analysis ...

Advances in sports science, data analysis and AI are having a huge impact on the way football is played. With England rated highly in this year’s World Cup, and teams such as Paraguay causing upsets – ...

What happens when football’s greatest quarterback teams up with one of YouTube’s biggest science channels? We got our answer this week as Tom Brady and Veritasium took a ludicrously deep dive into the ...

These days, a person can't talk about football without bringing up questions about the health effects of hard hits. Evidence is mounting that concussions experienced by players could lead to changes ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...