Something mysterious awaits Kevin Mills at the far end of the bowling lane ... it sounds weird when the ball hits home, more clattering than thunderous. The pins don’t scatter like normal ...

where no more torque is applied and the ball travels in a straight line toward the pins. The model can take all the relevant inputs that affect a bowling ball's motion and accurately calculate the ...

(SOUNDBITE OF BOWLING BALL KNOCKING DOWN PINS) KEVIN BEATY ... nine. You have to hit it between the one and the nine. BEATY: Sure, people are competitive here. But most people, like league ...

Despite controversy in the past two decades, two-handed bowling is legal provided the ball still comes off a ... dependent on where exactly the pins are hit on any given throw, plus the condition ...

the love for bowling has been passed on from her mum: "There's just something satisfying about the sound of the pins crashing down," she says. Supplied The ball is ambling coolly, almost too slow ...

If you were making a bowling ... the ball farther, Smith says. The tradeoff, he adds, is that by lowering a bat's swing weight, "you swing the bat faster, but you have less mass to hit the ball ...