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

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

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

A new discovery in physics could help engineers stabilize robots and structures without relying on complex sensors and ...

Scientists have uncovered a hidden quantum limit that prevents an electron's position and timing from ever being known with ...

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

A black hole is not sitting inside a lab in Manhattan, but some of its strangest physics just helped shape a tabletop experiment there. For decades, physicists have wondered whether waves could steal ...

Physics classrooms often rely on instructional practices that assume a narrow and culturally neutral definition of scientific ...

A new quantum theory bridges two rival models of how impurities behave inside many-particle systems, resolving a problem that has challenged physicists for decades. The findings could reshape ...

For years, physicists were stuck in trying to explain an important mathematical problem in physics. The right approach ended up being too simple.

The manifesto leaned heavily on Isaac Newton’s theories in making a case for independence, and fellow founders drew on the notion to build a new system of government By Jo Marchant Illustration by ...