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New research shows the way soccer players move about the field bears similarities to the manner in which particles behave under the chaotic conditions of turbulence. This discovery is one of the many ...

Every four years, soccer fans around the world glue their eyes to LED screens as they watch their favorite teams compete against each other for the chance to win the coveted FIFA World Cup trophy.

Join John Eric Goff, a Professor of Physics at University of Lynchburg, for Physics Fun with the Tour de France and World Cup Soccer. Goff's main research area over the past quarter century has been ...

In 1997, Brazilian soccer player Roberto Carlos scored on a free kick that first went right, then curved sharply to leftwards in what looked like a physics-defying fluke. We’ve finally discovered the ...

Cristiano Ronaldo does not have a Ph.D. in geophysics from Harvard. He received his training at Sporting Lisbon’s academy. He is also not a professor of applied mathematics at MIT. Nope. Actually, ...

Kieran Brown investigates why a certain soccer ball seems to defy the laws of physics. Passenger who died on cruise ship was ...

Can Physics Be Taught Like Soccer? Our nation is rather good at grooming youngsters to become excellent athletes. So a Chinese physicist who is doing his post-doctoral research at the Massachusetts ...

Example of a drag-and-drop exercise designed to help students practice physics skills online (From Zhongzhou Chen’s presentation delivered at Learning With MOOCs II conference Oct. 2015) Our nation is ...