A ball is sitting motionless on a dome. According to standard physics, it should stay put indefinitely, at least until the ball or the dome is perturbed. Suddenly, it begins sliding down the dome ...

Towers of stacked tennis balls built in gravity-defying shapes have been created by a physicist without the use of tape, glue or any other adhesive - just friction. Professor Andria Rogava of Tbilisi, ...

[Herman Erlichson was a physicist and a historian of science (he had Ph.D.s in both). He was also an avid golfer - and my uncle. He passed away just over a year ago, and I've been wanting to write ...

Baseball season is upon us and we thought we'd share with you the awesome physics of the curve ball. Here's a great video from Tetra Research of a curve ball in flight which will help us understand ...

Researchers have started to unravel the mysteries of how near-horizontal bowling in cricket leads to such tough-to-hit balls. The team employed a wake survey rake device made of multiple tubes ...