Canada is using Science to get ahead in the Olympic medal count – and who could blame them? Funded by the Own the Podium project, Canada has invested millions of dollars into advancing the science of the Winter Games. Of course, their findings won’t be made public until June 2010 at the earliest, but their results will be on display in the form of every Canadian Olympian’s performance.

And what about Curling? Well, it turns out that the sweeping motion of the brooms on the ice never actually melts the ice – it just changes the ice’s phase a bit, and thus the ice’s friction. I suspect it may be something like this: Ice Phases. Again, we won’t know the science until after June 2010. Stay tuned for more!

For the initiated, curling is the the on-ice equivalent of chess… and a wonderful game! Find out more about it here: Curling

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