What if 45 square feet of fiberboard contained the key to a better life? For centuries, humans have sought ways to optimize their minds, enhance their physical well-being and prolong their lives. It ...

Averill Park High School Principal Heath Quiles holds up a Yonder cellphone pouch on Friday in Averill Park. There are indications that the cellphone ban is improving academic performance: Quiles said ...

Those looking to sharpen their Ping-Pong skills but don’t have a playing partner, fear not. The Sameh Awadalla Table Tennis Academy (SATTA), located inside Pickle N Par in Melville, offers Robo Pong ...

Nearly a decade ago, a 28-year-old man named Edgar Welch walked into Comet Ping Pong, a popular pizza restaurant in Washington, DC, carrying an AR-15 rifle and a revolver. He fired several shots, ...

TACOMA, Wash. — Students at Lincoln High School in Tacoma marked the 55th anniversary of “ping-pong diplomacy” on Tuesday, revisiting the 1971 table tennis exchange that helped open relations between ...

Jeff Scheible does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Engineers developed a ping-pong-playing robot that quickly estimates the speed and trajectory of an incoming ball and precisely hits it to a desired location on the table. MIT engineers are getting in ...

Oakland A's catcher Jhonny Pereda is one of many pro athletes who plays ping-pong. Illustration: Dan Goldfarb / The Athletic; Justine Willard / Athletics / Getty Images This story is part of Peak, The ...

In this video I try to cram eight different ping pong trick shots into just 20 seconds. From bouncing balls off paddles and spinning platforms to landing cups and ring hooks, every setup is homemade ...

When writer Lisa Lucas visited Phoenix, Arizona, she learned about the table tennis player Thelma Thall, who won two world championships in the 1950s. Thall competed in a male-dominated world shaped ...

Ping drivers have always been known for being “brick s***houses” — as our gear director Johnny Wunder likes to say — that no matter where you hit it on the face, you barely lose any speed and it flies ...