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

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

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

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

The Nobel Laureate was known for his magnetic personality and witty lectures that made even the most complex aspects of physics accessible to all.

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 ...