A Physics concept called the "Magnus Effect" has taken the Internet by storm as YouTube channel Veritasium posted a video of an actual application of the said science. The video featuring the guys ...

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 ...

The biggest thing we’ve learned about pitching in the past few years is that Magnus force is not the only, or even primary, determinant of a pitch’s movement. Evidence and suspicion of this has been ...

The Magnus force has made Jeff Francis what he is today: a 25-year-old left-handed pitcher on the rise in his second full season with Major League Baseball's Colorado Rockies. A former physics and ...

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 ...

Whether you call it football, futbol or soccer, the game that will capture the world's attention for the next month during the FIFA World Cup is governed by forces other than just a player's hard work ...

And it's why a basketball dropped from the top of a dam seems to defy gravity as it zooms out across the water, as it does in this viral video from 2015. It's a law of fluid mechanics that states that ...

What does soccer, baseball, tennis, and countless other sports featured in the Olympics have in common? They all rely on the Magnus Force to bend it like Beckham, throw a mean fastball, or put massive ...

When a ball traveling through the air is spinning, some physics known as the magnus force kicks in to make it bend or curve. The magnitude of the magnus force depends on the ball’s rate of spin as ...

The Magnus effect is a interesting and useful phenomena. [James Whomsley] from [Project Air] decided to put it to work on a small radio-controlled boat, successfully harnessing the effect. (Video, ...

Flying RC aircraft seems like a wonderful hobby, especially when there are so many weird and wonderful contraptions. Real or remote-control, cars are simpler. They might run on gas or electricity, but ...

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 ...