The Magnus effect is a interesting and useful phenomena. [James Whomsley] from [Project Air] decided to put it to work on a small radio-controlled boat, successfully harnessing the effect. (Video, ...

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 ...

When you throw the ball back spin, lifting force is born and the flight distance increases. This isMagnus effectA movie that demonstrates how much power is concrete in one of them is released. The ...

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 ...

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This wing, though, is not a traditional foil shape typically found on aircraft. It uses the Magnus effect to generate lift. Briefly, the Magnus effect is when lift is generated from a spinning object ...