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 ...

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

The Big Bang may not mark the absolute beginning of everything. A controversial cosmological model instead treats it as a ...

The Big Bang may not mark the absolute beginning of everything. A controversial cosmological model instead treats it as a boundary, with our universe on one side and a time-reversed anti-universe on ...

Think of those classic road trip disasters on the silver screen. Robin Williams wrestling an oversize, rented recreational ...

Mathematicians have solved a physics puzzle using backyard sprinklers. Experiments with silly sprinklers clarified how reverse sprinklers rotate. The key lies in how water momentum collides inside the ...

Imagine this. You are driving home late at night on a one-way road that you have driven on a hundred times without thinking ...

Topological crystalline insulator research has reached a long-awaited milestone: Finnish physicists built the first 2D ...

A team of mathematicians from New York University and the Colorado School of Mines ...

Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity predicts that a rotating mass like the Earth pulls the fabric of space and ...

Eric Weinstein argues that modern theoretical physics has been dominated for decades by a small group of influential figures ...