For more than a century, physicists debated which way a submerged sprinkler sucking in water would spin. Careful experiments ...

Bending remains a common bottleneck for fabricators, and it’s easy to see why. Parts are cut in short order. Then they hit ...

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

For the first time, researchers from Idaho National Laboratory, the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of ...

A team of mathematicians from US universities has solved the Sprinkler Problem, a decades-old physics mystery regarding how a ...

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 ...