A simple basketball and a bit of backspin led to an unexpected result at the edge of a dam. This video captures how spin alters motion in ways that aren’t obvious at first glance. What seemed like a ...

I was looking through pictures of the kids for a back-to-school project, and ran across this shot of SteelyKid, age 8, taking a shot in a Bankshot game. This is a variant of basketball using weird ...

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 ...