So for most purposes, speed is a good proxy for angle of attack.

The International Olympic Committee joined the ranks of Ultimate Frisbee proponents by officially recognizing the World Flying Disc Federation in August. The IOC’s recognition of Ultimate Frisbee’s ...

What’s a trip to the beach without a game of Frisbee? We check in with experts in the game and in physics to find out what makes the perfect throw. What’s a trip to the beach without a game of Frisbee ...

Flash Physics is our daily pick of the latest need-to-know developments from the global physics community selected by Physics World‘s team of editors and reporters The 2016 Paolo Farinella Prize has ...

Torn disc: artist’s impression of the circumstellar disc surrounding GW Orionis. The innermost ring can be seen at an angle to the rest of the disc. (Courtesy: ESO/L Calçada, Exeter/Kraus et al.) The ...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is arguably one of the most important scientific tools humanity has ever come up with. It allows us to probe at the inner workings of the universe, giving us a glimpse ...

This footage of an Euler’s Disk is nominally educational, but the main takeaway is how relaxing it is to watch and listen to a shiny disk spin on a mirror. Euler’s Disks are designed to illustrate the ...

Making a two on a par 5 — otherwise known as an albatross — is among the most difficult feats in both golf and disc golf, the sport's comparatively crunchy cousin. But at the 2016 Beaver State Fling ...

OK, two physicists who discovered Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR) did I went on a bit of a rant recently about how cool disk technology. Seems the Swedish Academy of Sciences, the organization that ...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - France's Albert Fert and Germany's Peter Gruenberg won the 2007 Nobel Prize for physics on Tuesday for a breakthrough in nanotechnology that lets huge amounts of data be squeezed ...