Scientists have pinned down why a sprinkler spins when it sucks in water instead of spraying it out — a problem that stumped ...

Theoretical physicists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have developed a new method of ordering Feynman integrals ...

Richard Feynman is remembered as one of the twentieth century's greatest physicists, a Nobel Prize winner whose work ...

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

A famed physicist’s scribbles reveal the answer to a quintessential dilemma: When dining out, is it better to stick with an old favorite, or try something new? Nobel Prize–winning physicist Richard ...

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

Richard Phillips Feynman (1918–1988) stands as one of the most charismatic and influential figures in 20th-century physics. A Nobel laureate, his impact extended far beyond theoretical physics, ...

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

As Richard Feynman once said, “a man cannot live beyond the grave,” and so surely Feynman could not speak from the grave, either. Except that actually, he did. For years after his death in 1988, books ...

I have a confession: I didn't actually know a whole lot about Richard Feynman. Well, okay, I knew a bit about his role at Los Alamos from a history class, and I knew a little about his outsized ...

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 ...

Richard Feynman's famous diagrams embody a deep shift in thinking about how the universe is put together. Richard Feynman looked tired when he wandered into my office. It was the end of a long, ...