Shane Keating ponders the science behind the sport of curling
In Dr Shane Keating's latest piece for The Conversation, he ponders the science behind the sport of curling.
Published on the 15 February 2022
Although one of the oldest team sports, unresolved questions still persist in the niche world of curling physics.
"Australia’s first ever Olympic curling team scored an historic win but missed the medal podium at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing. It was a remarkable performance for a team lacking any dedicated curling facilities at home.
"And that’s important, because it is the special properties of curling ice that allow the heavy curling stones to glide and curve in ways that seem to defy physics. In fact, scientists are still not sure what puts the “curl” in curling..."
Read the full piece at: The slippery science of Olympic curling: we still don’t know how it works.