A shape that captured worldwide attention for solving a decades-old mathematical puzzle has returned to the spotlight. While ...

Many technologies transform wind or water currents into useful forces and motions of structures. Our study makes significant progress toward understanding the physics of hydromechanical devices called ...

Quirky backyard sprinklers helped scientists solve a decades-old mystery about how flowing water makes objects spin.

Mathematicians who helped unify laws of physics and cracked decades-old problems in geometry are among this year's recipients ...

Mathematicians have solved a physics puzzle using backyard sprinklers. Experiments with silly sprinklers clarified how ...

Fathoming fluid flow Flows of water coming into a reverse sprinkler, visualized using particles and false-coloured. (Courtesy: NYU's Applied Mathematics Laboratory) New insights into the “reverse ...

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

For decades, physicists have debated Richard Feynman’s famous Sprinkler Problem—the question of how a reverse sprinkler would behave—and now researchers may have finally found the answer. “This work ...

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

Each summer, lawns are marked by a familiar addition: “silly sprinklers,” whose loops and spirals spew water in creative ways. While seemingly frivolous in their construction, a team of mathematicians ...

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