While all cars need electric current to work, none have an alternator driven purely by a turbine which spins by virtue of ...

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

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

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

Condensed-matter physics is the study of substances in their solid state. This includes the investigation of both crystalline solids in which the atoms are positioned on a repeating three-dimensional ...

When British Prime Minister Keir Starmer led the Labour Party to a landslide victory in July 2024, he hailed the result as the end of 14 years of misrule by the Conservative Party and the beginning of ...

The Martin A. Fisher School of Physics enjoys an international reputation for excellence in research, and is one of the highest-ranked of its size in the country. The department offers rigorous ...

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

The microscopic origin of line tension, used in the equilibrium description of liquid drops on flat surfaces, is not well understood. Simulations of water nanodroplets show that structural transitions ...

With performance three times better than copper’s, this new material could substantially improve heat management of electronics, data centers and energy systems ...