The modern badminton game as we know it developed in the mid-19th century, and the Badminton World Federation (BWF) was established in 1934. Real feathers have been used in official tournaments since ...

Staff members of a sports product company in Jinping county, Guizhou province, make badminton shuttlecocks. XIANG DINGJIE/XINHUA GUIYANG — A delicate goose feather carries much weight in Jinping ...

GUIYANG — A delicate goose feather carries much weight in Jinping county, Southwest China's Guizhou province. Once plagued by poverty, Jinping is now a global production hub for badminton ...

In this Expresso Sports Feature, we look at how IIT Researchers investigate if Nylon Shuttle can match Feather-Made counterpart and why this opens up the possibility for improved designs that can make ...

Every time Sanjay Mittal, 55, held a badminton shuttlecock made of feathers, all he thought of was the cruelty inflicted upon birds. This got the IIT Kanpur aerospace engineering professor thinking.

Duck feather shuttlecocks continue to be used in professional badminton tournaments but elsewhere, nylon shuttlecocks have emerged as alternatives because of their superior durability. Mittal and his ...