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 ...

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

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Western's Rotman Institute of Philosophy hosted a global Summit on Interdisciplinarity. Director Dan Lizotte explains why 'wicked problems' need philosophy.

The most vexing question in physics right now is how general relativity – the laws that govern gravity and space-time on large scales – meshes with quantum mechanics, the laws that govern very small ...