Scientists have pinned down why a sprinkler spins when it sucks in water instead of spraying it out — a problem that stumped ...

For millions of people, the images seemed to herald the arrival of a new age. To understand why those images mattered, it is necessary to remember how threatening Iraq seemed before the war began.

A team of mathematicians used whimsical "silly sprinklers" to solve a physics mystery that has puzzled scientists for decades ...

For decades, physicists have argued about Feynman’s Sprinkler Problem, the question of how a reverse sprinkler would operate.

Physicists have debated which way a submerged sprinkler sucking in water would spin. Careful experiments provide an answer.

A team of mathematicians from US universities has solved the Sprinkler Problem, a decades-old physics mystery regarding how a ...

Researchers at New York University’s Courant Institute conducted a series of experiments with different silly sprinkler ...

As a longtime member of the 3D-printing community, I'm alarmed by new legislation targeting the digital files, platforms, and machines that create weapons. It raises a powerful question: Who decides ...