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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Barton Smith had a different take on how a “Laminar Express” works, but realized that these pitches have movement that is not explained by Magnus Effect and require the orientation of the ball that ...

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 ...

So, just cause it's the sweet space between Christmas and New Year's doesn't mean you can't still learn new, cool things — like physics. Today's coolness is the Magnus effect, which is all about how ...

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 ...