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

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

Each summer, lawns are marked by a familiar addition: "silly sprinklers," whose loops and spirals spew water in creative ways ...

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

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

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

A quick Google search of the current biggest mysteries in physics turns up a daunting list of questions: What exactly is dark matter? Why does time only move in one direction? What happens inside a ...

Physicist Richard Feynman turned a lunch dilemma into a math problem. Researchers finally cracked his notes and found people approximate his solution on their own.

Norton. 511 pp. $29.95 Anyone who writes knows how difficult it is to come up with a good title. Lynne Truss published a moderately enjoyable ramble about punctuation but somehow had the genius to ...

A casual lunch between friends in the late 1970s left behind one of physics' quirkiest unsolved puzzles. Nobel laureate Richard Feynman, while dining with his friend Ralph Leighton at a Thai ...