Scientists have pinned down why a sprinkler spins when it sucks in water instead of spraying it out — a problem that stumped ...

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Researchers at New York University’s Courant Institute conducted a series of experiments with different silly sprinkler designs to find the answer to a longstanding problem in fluid dynamics, ...

Late physicist turned issue of when to stop searching for a better place to eat into mathematical problem ...

A team of mathematicians used whimsical "silly sprinklers" to solve a physics mystery that has puzzled scientists for decades. Their experiments showed that the rotation of both normal and reverse ...

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

Richard Feynman is remembered as one of the twentieth century's greatest physicists, a Nobel Prize winner whose work transformed quantum electrodynamics and whose wit made science accessible to ...

A famed physicist’s scribbles reveal the answer to a quintessential dilemma: When dining out, is it better to stick with an old favorite, or try something new? Nobel Prize–winning physicist Richard ...

How could Richard Feynman have been such a great physicist and done so phenomenally well on the Putnam competition and yet still have an IQ score of only 125? originally appeared on Quora: the ...

After reading my weekend column about the crisis in life science research, Hajime Hoji of USC’s linguistics department reminded me of the late Richard Feynman’s brilliant deconstruction of the flaws ...

I have a confession: I didn't actually know a whole lot about Richard Feynman. Well, okay, I knew a bit about his role at Los Alamos from a history class, and I knew a little about his outsized ...

In his new book, Quantum Man, physicist and writer Lawrence M. Krauss describes the scientific contributions, and unique mind, of Nobel Prize-winner Richard Feynman, whom he calls "perhaps the ...