Researchers from the University of Waterloo have achieved a feat previously thought to be impossible—getting a sphere to roll ...

a Yale physicist and the author of The Physics of Baseball, has speculated that the holes, like the stitching on a baseball, accelerate turbulence on the perforated side of the Wiffle ball.

One recent episode riffed on the classic physics demo in which you hang a heavy ball (bowling balls are common) on a wire and release it near someone's head. The ball swings away in an arc and ...

In every case, though, the with-backspin ball shows a more dramatic change in horizontal velocity than the knuckleball does. That's exactly what you expect from both physics and basketball lore ...