If you’ve ever watched a “silly sprinkler” in action (those bright, looping contraptions that twist and spray water in wild patterns) you’ve probably just seen them as summer fun. But a group of ...

Richard Feynman got this one wrong — or at least couldn't get far enough to find out. As a Princeton graduate student in the early 1940s, he pressurized a glass carboy to run a sprinkler backward, ...

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 ...

Physicists have debated which way a submerged sprinkler sucking in water would spin. Careful experiments provide an answer. By Kenneth Chang Scientists say they have solved in detail what may be the ...

BRITAIN’S biggest water supplier has urged customers to stop using hosepipes and sprinkers. Record high temperatures have led to growing demands for water, requiring residents to use resources more ...

Watering your lawn in the summer can be both pragmatic and fun with so-called “silly sprinklers,” designed to create amusing loops and spirals of water jets. And there’s some fascinating physics at ...

The Fall River Fire Department conducted a live fire demonstration to highlight the importance of functional sprinkler systems. The demonstration recreated the conditions of the fatal Gabriel House ...