Mud dauber wasps may look menacing, but they are actually fairly harmless to people. These solitary wasps get their name from the mud they use to make their nests. There are a few different types of ...

Scientists dug up the real dirt on the substance applied to all the baseballs used in the major leagues. By David Waldstein If you looked closely at the baseballs used in the World Series last month, ...

For years, a special mud has been rubbed on every baseball before every major league game to make it less slippery. The mud’s story dates to the 1930s, and MLB still relies on one small supplier. A ...

There was no joy in Mudville, aka Quail Hollow, after Thursday’s opening round of the PGA Championship, where two of the game’s top players griped about the gunky lies they’d drawn in the fairways on ...

A multibillion-dollar business that embraces advanced technology and cherishes precision, Major League Baseball would prefer not to need an oozy substance harvested by one family in a secret location ...

Years ago, geologist Neil Davies traveled to Bolivia to pick through heaps of fossilized fish. He wanted to know more about the ancient shoreline these fish swam along roughly 460 million years ago, ...