If you were to listen to the grunting and screaming of a recent professional women's tennis match from the other room, you might not be sure if players like Maria Sharapova or Serena Williams are ...

Woodpeckers really know how to punch above their weight. The woodland birds can attack a tree at about 15 miles per hour with their powerful beaks. To achieve this, woodpeckers essentially turn ...

Woodpeckers pack a punch, pounding wood with extreme force and experiencing decelerations of up to 400g. Now, researchers ...

Today in sports: The Women's Tennis Association is urging the next generation of players to stop their excessive grunting by never starting, the Vikings may finally be getting their state-funded ...

Another tense net-side confrontation overshadowed play at the U.S. Open, as Spain’s Jaume Munar and Belgium’s Zizou Bergs exchanged words after their third-round match in Flushing, New York. Munar was ...

NEW YORK — A U.S. Open player frustrated by the grunting of his opponent Saturday let him know about it during a tense conversation at the net after the match. Jaume Munar of Spain was not happy with ...

Muscles are key for woodpeckers as they turn their bodies into a hammer when drilling. In Journal of Experimental Biology, researchers reveal that the birds’ head, neck, abdomen and tail muscles brace ...