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The team first measured how easily the mud spreads using a rheometer – an instrument featuring two rotating plates. By placing the mud sample between these plates, the researchers found that the clay ...

While it can’t be credited with winning the Los Angeles Dodgers their eighth World Series championship, baseball’s “magic mud ...

The first two qualities could be measured using existing equipment — a rheometer and atomic force microscopy, respectively — but to measure the mud’s frictional effects, the researchers had ...