Can studying the laws of physics help you be a better basketball player? It might help you find the best angle for your jump shot. U.S. Naval Academy professor John Fontanella, author of The Physics ...

A graduate student in physics at the University of Minnesota recently had a research paper recognized at a Massachusetts Institute of Technology conference, and it had nothing to do with matter, ...

A dispute in professional basketball about a new ball has bounced its way into a physics lab. A study launched last month at the University of Texas at Arlington compares a controversial plastic ball ...

The Magnus Effect is something most people have never heard of until now that a YouTube clip explaining what it does showed how incredibly cool physics can be. These kids went to a 415-foot-high dam ...

Josh Gates (@DeltaGPhys) beat me to this one. A great analysis of the following commercial. I kind of like the commercial (from a non-physics view). Well done. But as Josh points out, not so well done ...

The Harlem Globetrotters are a much-loved exhibition basketball team that has been entertaining audiences for nearly 100 years with zany gags and amazing skills. In their latest stunt, Globetrotter ...

Many basketball players like to spin the ball on their fingers. It is some sort of juggling move that can be learned in a few days (see figure 1). To make the ball spin in balance on your fingers it ...