You’ve been hearing all about torpedo bats of late, and with good reason. New equipment isn’t introduced to Major League Baseball often, but the torpedo bat represents a change in the design ...

A 'cloak of secrecy' created by the UK in its encryption showdown with Apple must be removed, according to a cross-party group of politicians in America. The group of Democrat and Republican ...

The extraordinary torpedo bats that have taken MLB by storm may be headed toward being completely ordinary. “I think you’re going to see it across all 30 teams,”former MLB pitcher and co ...

Can anything defuse Major League Baseball's hottest hitting weapon? The so-called torpedo bats − the MLB-legal, tailor-made bats with weight distribution toward the barrel − have become the ...

NEW YORK — The New York Yankees’ bats were the story of the team’s franchise-record nine-home run day against the Milwaukee Brewers on Saturday. Then came the discussion about the actual ...

And at the center of it all? “Torpedo” bats. The Bronx Bombers tied an MLB record as they hit 15 home runs in their opening three-game series – including a franchise-record nine in their 20 ...

Major League Baseball has been taken over by the introduction of a new piece of hitting technology that's been dubbed the "torpedo bat." This bat sees the hardest and densest part of the bat moved ...

The opening weekend of the 2025 MLB season was taken over by a surprise star -- torpedo bats. The bowling pin-shaped bats became the talk of the sport after the Yankees' home run onslaught on the ...

For the MIT-educated physicist behind the torpedo bat, it's more about the talent of the players than their lumber at the plate. The torpedo model — a striking design in which wood is moved ...

The "torpedo" bat used by several players on the New York Yankees was created by Aaron Leanhardt, an MIT physicist who now coaches for the Miami Marlins. Leanhardt developed the torpedo bat from ...

And the easiest way to do so, Leanhardt surmised, was to increase the size of the barrel on their bat. Elongating the barrel -- the fat part of the bat that generates the hardest and most contact ...

Led by a team of experts, including Pipat Soisook, Professor at Prince of Songkla University in Taiwan; Isabelle Mandl from Bat Conservation International; Rohit Chakravarty from the Nature ...