If you’ve played basketball before, you probably know that most shots are performed overarm, with your arm going over your head as you shoot. Well, a new study says underarm throwing – or “granny ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – A physics theory that’s proven useful to predict the crowd behavior of molecules and fruit flies also seems to work on another group – NBA players. A model based on density functional ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – A Cornell University research team has employed a variation of a theory first used to predict the collective actions of electrons in quantum mechanical systems to evaluate basketball ...

A basketball was dropped from nearly 460 feet off a dam. One was released normally, the other with backspin. The difference was immediate and dramatic. Instead of falling straight down, the spinning ...