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Scientists have pinned down why a sprinkler spins when it sucks in water instead of spraying it out — a problem that stumped Richard Feynman and has divided physicists for nearly a century.

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, ...

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 ...

Tools can change not only how theorists calculate but also what they calculate about. But two decades ago, Ursula Klein, a scholar from the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, ...

The lectures of Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman were legendary. Footage of these lectures does exist, but they are most famously preserved in The Feynman Lectures. The three-volume set ...

Learning through doodling: Richard Feynman lecture doodle by Perrin Ireland taken from the March 2014 issue of Physics World magazine. (Courtesy: Perrin Ireland) The drawing’s creator is professional ...

Feynman's made a lecture and book that mathematics is needed to describe nature. It (in The Relation of Mathematics to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. In the years prior to World War II, physics was in an odd, ...

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 ...