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Libratus AI Defeated Top Pros in 20 Days of Poker Play Libratus, an artificial intelligence that defeated four top professional poker players in no-limit Texas Hold'em earlier this year, uses a three

Anyone with normal vision knows that a ball that seems to quickly be growing larger is probably going to hit them on the nose. But strap them into a virtual reality headset, and they still may need to take a few lumps before they pay attention to the visual cues that work so well in the real world, according to a new study from University of Wisconsin-Madison psychologists.

A soccer player's performance on the field is determined by their skill rather than their athletic ability, researchers from The University of Queensland have found.

National spinal injury charity Aspire and the University of Birmingham have teamed up on a research project that is set to produce evidence-based Best Practice Guidance for training and employing disabled people in the fitness industry.

Yale's Center for Health & Learning Games will establish a new lab, play4REAL, with a gift from Oculus, a Facebook-owned technology company specializing in Virtual Reality (VR) hardware and software products.

CMU researchers say fair redistricting possible even with partisan maneuvering Getting two political parties to equitably draw congressional district boundaries can seem hopeless, but Carnegie Mellon University researchers say the process can be improved by using an approach children use to share a piece of cake.

Australian middle-distance runners UQ alumnus Brittany McGowan and Jordan Williamsz will return to The University of Queensland tomorrow to defend their race titles at the 2017 UQ Sport 1500m Classic.

Do you want to run alongside the major players in global sports technology innovation or - even better - set the pace? In partnership with the Queensland Government, The University of Queensland has been enlisted by the HYPE Foundation to champion sports entrepreneurship and sportstech innovation.

The Lakers legend and former Bruin will serve as celebrity ambassador for the annual Light the Night Walk Amy Albin Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is teaming up with UCLA Health and the Los Angeles Lakers at the 2017 Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Los Angeles Light the Night Walk.

UChicago scientists have a long history of using balloons to study cosmic rays, such as this 1946 experiment at Stagg Field.

A new dynamic 20-minute exercise programme, performed by rugby players before training and pre-match, could dramatically reduce injuries in the sport according to a benchmark study published today (Sunday 22 October). Published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine , the collaborative project between health researchers at the University and England Rugby shows that the introduction of a simple injury prevention exercise programme has significant impacts in reducing rates both for concussion and lower limb injuries.

Pupils in secondary schools are reluctant to see fitness and health tracking devices such as Fitbits introduced into Physical Exercise lessons in schools and the device could potentially cause a negative impact on students' overall well-being, research led by the University of Birmingham has found. In a new study, published today in Sport, Education and Society, researchers looked at the responses of 13 and 14 year olds taking part in Physical Exercise classes at two UK secondary schools over an eight-week period.

Historians at the University of Glasgow will today (Monday 16 October 2017) officially launch a computer representation of 18th century plantations in Minecraft to help school children engage with the history of slavery.

A new mobile game called Blues and Reds , now available worldwide, aims to help researchers study interactive behavior.

NFL owners have locked arms with players, and Jerry Jones took a knee.

Once again President Donald Trump has inserted himself into the latest iteration of the culture wars with his recent comments targeting Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry and the National Football League.

Jonny Davies, third year Biochemistry student and University of Birmingham sport scholar, last week bought home 2 medals for the GB Athletics team at the World University Games in Taipei.

The University of Queensland has finished fourth overall, and Queensland's top-ranked university, at the 2017 Australian Uni Games (AUG) on the Gold Coast.

Reducing the injury rates in football and other male contact sports to those of non-contact sports like tennis or baseball would result in 49,600 fewer injuries per year in colleges and 601,900 injuries per year in high school, according to a new study by Yale economist Ray C. Fair.

The University of Queensland is focussed on finishing undefeated in the inaugural Aon Uni 7s Series which concludes this weekend on the Gold Coast.

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As the clock ticked down toward zero, tensions were running high in the crowded room. Anthony Firkser, A.B. '17, had just stepped out to take a phone call, and the crowd was growing restless.

An app that uses satellite imagery to give flight travellers an interactive, bird's-eye view of their routes took the top prize at this year's Space App Camp at ESA's centre in Frascati, Italy.

The University of Queensland female rugby union team has extended its lead in the Aon Uni 7s Series after winning its third-consecutive tournament.

The University of Queensland will be out to extend its Aon Uni 7s Series winning streak when it hosts Round 3 at the UQ Sport Athletics Centre in St Lucia this weekend, 16 and 17 September.

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University of Queensland Aon Uni 7s Series coach Reg Tayler has called on his unbeaten side to maintain its focus at this weekend's second round (9-10 September) in Sydney.

Three University of Queensland students have recorded top five placings at the 2017 Summer Universiade in Taipei, Taiwan.

The University of Queensland has won the opening round of the history-making Aon Uni 7s Series , scoring victory in all five of its games at the University of Tasmania Stadium in Launceston.

Though soccer players have assigned roles, it is routine for players to swap positions throughout the course of a game, or even during a single play. Players and fans recognize when this occurs and now, thanks to work led by engineers at Caltech, so can a computer. The Caltech team, along with colleagues at Disney Research and STATS, a major supplier of sports data, have developed an algorithm that can automatically recognize formations of teams-how they arrange themselves on the field-when analyzing player tracking data.

Stanford and Rice Universities kicked off the 2017 College Football Cup this week by touching down at the University of Sydney.

Henry J. Binder, Professor Emeritus of and Senior Research Scientist in Medicine at Yale, didn't set out to create a better Gatorade-but in looking for a means to help people suffering from dehydration to better absorb nutrients he may have done just that.