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The 2024 total solar eclipse provided some answers. Mexican free-tailed bats fly out of Frio Cave, Texas, on April 6, 2024. Photographer Babak Tafreshi used a fish-eye lens and soft flashes to ...
In an unusual incident during the IPL match between Chennai Super Kings and Sunrisers Hyderabad, Ravindra Jadeja's bat failed the umpire's inspection due to size regulations. This forced Jadeja to ...
During an IPL 2025 match, Riyan Parag of Rajasthan Royals faced an unusual interruption when his bat failed a gauge check by the umpire. Forced to switch bats, Parag's displeasure was evident ...
Why has the IPL started measuring bats all of a sudden during IPL 2025? That has become a significant question ever since April 13, when match officials began using a gauge to measure bats.
As other sports have adapted to technology advancement, popular opinion and culture shifts, baseball has been a stalwart in tradition – one of which is the bats hitters use. But in 2025 ...
For her PhD research, bat biologist Kadambari Deshpande made overnight recordings of bat echolocation calls in the Western Ghats. A “good night” would generate about 30 GB of data from 11 ...
The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 double-header on Sunday saw the start of an interesting procedure, as umpires began checking the bat size of players. In the contest between Delhi Capitals (DC ...
In that sense, the sudden furor over so-called torpedo bats is refreshing. At least, for once, we're arguing and conspiracy-theorizing about a different piece of equipment. But torpedo bats are ...
The final score, 20–9, was almost too good to be true. And then, everybody noticed the bats. At first glance, the craze appears to be the culmination of the data-driven tweaks that have ...
Florida's bat maternity season begins April 16 and lasts through August 14. It is illegal to remove bats from your home without a permit during maternity season. Bats are beneficial to the ...
You know the deal by now: The New York Yankees hit a bajillion home runs on opening weekend, with several of the sluggers involved swinging “torpedo” bats that are crafted more like bowling ...
Marte, who has used Tater bats since 2018, was one of many MLB players who inquired about the bat -- now known as a torpedo bat-- as the craze took baseball by storm. He wanted to place an order ...