Back in the fall of 1989, I was a freshman at Williams College, and one Monday night that fall there was some sort of problem with the cable TV in our dorm, so a bunch of us went next door to watch ...

Back on Sunday, I devoted a "Football Physics" post to talking about erratic bouncing and an amazing rugby play where a ball popped up high at just the right moment. That's the sort of play that ...

A new study published in the American Institute of Physics' (AIP) journal Physics of Fluids reveals that the normal rebounding of a ball changes when it is partially filled with a liquid. Unlike an ...