Amid a World Series seeing an incredibly high number of home runs, pitchers claim a “slicker” baseball has made it harder for them to throw sinking pitches that tend to get them outs. But University ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. The World Series is underway, and last night the Kansas City Royals won ...

There are few sports more exciting than playoff baseball, but behind every pitch there is also a fascinating story of physics. From gravity to spin, the science shaping the game can be just as ...

Alan M. Nathan, a professor emeritus of physics at the University of Illinois and a nationally recognized expert on the physics of baseball, speaks at Bates at 4:10 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 9, in Room 204 ...

It’s common for science teachers to try to craft classroom lessons out of things that students see every day and can easily understand. I remember a lot of the science teachers I had during my school ...

Alan Nathan is Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After a long career doing things like measuring the electric and magnetic polarizabilities of the proton ...

The issue of juiced baseballs surfaces every couple years during the month of April due to a high rate of home runs hit. Ed Wolfstein / Icon SMI 756 / Ed Wolfstein / Icon SMI / Newscom Cheating in ...

SAN FRANCISCO--If you were at the Exploratorium here the other day, you might well have needed to be wary of flying objects. That's because, way in the back of the world-class science exploration ...