COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Figure skating traces its roots to 1772, when Englishman Robert Jones provided one of the first documented accounts of the sport. By the early 1900s, figure skating had crossed ...

He probably won’t like me for saying this, but Leonard Susskind of Stanford University looks a bit like Charles Darwin. The reason I know is that Susskind – one of the father figures of string theory ...

For at least a decade, the quadruple axel jump was figure skating’s white whale. “It’s been this unreachable thing, like the four-minute mile” once was, says Matthew Lind, a technical specialist for U ...

You don't have to be a fan of figure skating or science to enjoy this brief clip from Scientific American explaining the physics behind ice skating. (Trust me on both accounts.): In which part of the ...