Sam dives into a ‘sea of sharks’, crooks profiting from a multi-billion pound industry. Craig Corse and Alice Tait feature artists appearing at this year's Orkney Folk Festival.

Nine were reportedly hit with the new bats. Cincinnati Reds' Elly De La Cruz added more fuel to the fire when he picked up a torpedo bat for the first time Monday night in a homestand series ...

They are customized for each player, with wood more concentrated in areas of the bat where the hitter is more likely to strike the ball. You may not be able to tell the difference between a ...

Following a competition launched two years ago by Creative Orkney in partnership with Orkney 2025, Jodie Brown’s eye-catching standing stones medal design was chosen and her sketch has become reality ...

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 ...

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The medals feature a representation of Orkney's standing stones The medals for the first International Island Games to be held in Orkney will feature an image of the islands' famous standing stones.

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 ...

A new malware campaign has been observed leveraging social engineering tactics to deliver an open-source rootkit called r77. The activity, condemned OBSCURE#BAT by Securonix, enables threat actors to ...

Despite Juan Soto's departure to join the New York Mets this offseason, the talk of the town during the first series of the MLB season was without a doubt the New York Yankees. And for good reason.

When Aaron Leanhardt was a graduate student in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he was part of a research team that cooled sodium gas to the lowest temperature ever recorded ...

This Thursday marks 100 days to go until the Orkney 2025 Island Games begins. To commemorate the milestone, organised have unveiled the medals that will be presented to each winning athlete at this ...