This amazing video of the Magnus effect in action will make you love science even more

Science can just be so cool. If you want further evidence of this, you should watch an incredible new video of a basketball being dropped from the top of a 126-foot dam in Australia that shows the Magnus effect in action. MORE SCIENCE: These tiny fish can survive in volcanoes and they're the stuff of nightmares The video first shows what happens when you just take a basketball and drop it from the top of the dam without applying any spin — it more or less falls straight down to the ground. How...