A couple of brief items...
With the men's soccer World Cup going on, scientifically minded outlets have been doing a lot of stories on the physics of soccer balls and the kicking thereof. Syracuse University physicist Mark Trodden, basking in the success (thus far) of England's squad, posts a blog entry on star player David Beckham and his signature technique of kicking the ball to make it curve sharply. This is also the inspiration for the movie title, Bend it Like Beckham. Mark also links to a site called Soccer Ball World, which delves into the aerodynamics of flying soccer balls.
Further, the July-August 2006 issue of the journal American Scientist has an article on mathematical aspects of the design of soccer balls (only a brief introduction to the article is available online, unless one is a subscriber).
Another story on soccer ball design appeared on the Science Channel show "Discoveries This Week" earlier this month.
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In some cities at least, the PBS show NOVA will in the coming days re-air its episode on neutrino physics, "The Ghost Particle," which was originally broadcast in February (click here for a transcript).
As discussed in Robert Oerter's book, The Theory of Almost Everything (reviewed here) and elsewhere, the idea of neutrinos having mass goes beyond the Standard Model, thus constituting an exciting current area of particle physics research.