Beer mats protect tables from unsightly condensation rings. However, they are sometimes also misused as projectiles. Usually with little success: after just a short time, the cardboard coaster leaves ...

The curved rim on a Frisbee acts as an airfoil, which generates lift almost like an airplane wing. For beer mats, however, gravity takes hold soon after becoming airborne, greatly affecting its lift ...

Many a pub crawler has engaged in the time-honored tradition of throwing beer mats—those round cardboard coasters that are ubiquitous in bars—as if the mats were frisbees, often competing to see who ...

Whilst modelling the forces acting upon a thrown beer mat, physicists discover why flat discs have such poor flight potential. The question ‘Why do beer mats make bad frisbees?’ may initially seem ...

Pub chain JD Wetherspoon has printed 500,000 pro-Brexit beer mats. The mats say "big business" leaders have "tried to fool the public" on the referendum vote by lying about higher food prices. The ...

Ever wonder where those little cardboard beer mats that slide under your glass come from? Neither did we. But German newspaper Der Spiegel has a fascinating story (and cool slide show) on the ...

Anyone who has ever failed to throw a beer mat into a hat should take note: physicists have discovered why this task is so difficult. However, their study also suggests how to significantly increase ...