You might be surprised to learn that some bowling balls can float, a fact that was tested on the YouTube series Good Mythical Morning. Bowling balls that weigh under 12 pounds can float, while heavier ...

We’ve all made a tiny ping-pong ball float on a hair dryer, but what YouTube’s Veritasium is demonstrating here—a giant styrofoam ball floating on the side of a thin stream of water—seems to ...

Flotation is, well, a “simple” question of physics (an idea that’s flummoxed scores of physics students for centuries). Bowling balls seem heavy, and they are compared to other sports balls, which may ...