Table tennis professionals are true masters at redirecting fast-moving projectiles. Putting a targeted spin on a serve can ...

Physicists have directly observed the optical Magnus effect for the first time by mapping how a tightly focused laser interacts with a single trapped calcium ion. The strongest atom-light interaction ...

A trapped ion revealed that tightly focused light behaves in unexpected ways, exposing a subtle hidden quantum effect.

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have become the first to observe the Magnus effect in light, potentially opening a new avenue for controlling light in ...

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 ...

A surprising twist in the quantum world. Villigen, 27.08.2026 — Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, ETH Zurich and the Uni ...

Whether you are familiar with the term "Magnus effect" or not, you have certainly seen it in action. It is when a spinning ball—for instance in football, cricket or baseball—bends away from its ...