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 ...

From pursuits of nuclear fusion to an attractive point source of accelerated protons for proton radiography. Protons ...

Iris van Herpen doesn’t design clothes. She is an artist who conducts scientific experiments through the medium of clothing, creating gowns out of solids, liquids, gas, and even living matter. And ...

A retired school bus has found an exciting second life, transformed into a mobile science classroom where students can explore, experiment and learn. The Barnegat Township School District recently ...

Physicist Ronald Koopman appeared at a Southern California Air District meeting in 2018 to talk about what seemed like an arcane scientific topic: hydrofluoric acid dispersion and water mitigation ...

It's been a week since President Trump signed an executive order directing a whole-of-government push on quantum computing — funding it, securing its supply chains, building its workforce, and making ...

A pair of silver tongs reaches for a turkey burger in a frying pan - bestbee/Shutterstock We may not be able to ascertain what went through Gloria Beesley's mind on that fateful day in July 2018 when ...

This article is part of “The Young American Scientists,” which includes stories of 28 extraordinary scientists poised to change the world, as well as a deep look at the past, present and future of ...

Some science experiments last a few minutes. Some take years. And then there is the Pitch Drop Experiment, which has been running for nearly a century and is still not finished. The Pitch Drop ...

Nearly two decades ago, four graduate students from MIT united around a shared idea. "We believed that programming cells would ultimately be more important than programming computers," says Jason ...

When a queen wasp suddenly disappears, her colony doesn’t calmly choose a successor — it erupts into chaos. Researchers found that female wasps immediately begin battling for power, shattering the ...