Every four years, people around the world get together to complain about a ball. Aside from which country’s name is the best to chant out loud (U. S. A.! U. S. A.!), the design of the official ...

Drop a basketball with backspin from a great enough height, and something rather interesting happens. In the video below, Veritasium’s Derek Muller explains the Magnus effect, and why the phenomenon ...

Curving and bending a ball using the magnus effect is common in every sport. Curving and bending a ball using the magnus effect is common in every sport. The effect can be reversed though - kick the ...

I will summarize this article for you: “Have you seen these crazy soccer kicks where the ball curves? It happens because the ball spins and physics. Here is a video” Oh, and they have a diagram – ...

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Science can just be so cool. If you want further evidence of this, you should watch an incredible new video of a basketball being dropped from the top of a 126-foot dam in Australia that shows the ...

Typically when we think of backspin, we think of trick shots in basketball and advanced moves in tennis. But there is more to backspin than meets the eye. Simply dropped, the ball falls more or less ...

The Milwaukee Brewers begin their National League playoff series Friday afternoon against the Atlanta Braves. Corbin Burnes is expected on the mound for the home team at American Family Field, one of ...