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

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 ...

Scientists at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have discovered a surprisingly simple way to create exotic light ...

India completed a historic clean sweep at the 56th International Physics Olympiad 2026, with all five participants winning gold medals and the country finishing joint first. The result has renewed ...

AI coding agents ported Fields Medalist Terence Tao’s Java 1.0 math visualizations to JavaScript in hours, identified two ...

Science is not really a specific thing to like or hate, or something to believe in or not. Science is an activity.

Quantum mechanics has long relied on complex numbers to describe the strange behavior of particles, from tunneling to ...

Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity predicts that a rotating mass like the Earth pulls the fabric of space and ...

Students participated in experiments led by community members and heard from experts in each of the STEAM fields.

A new study at a Spanish zoo showed the giraffes could do rudimentary mathematics. What animals can do arithmetic?

The laws of physics that concern heat and work could gain a firmer mathematical footing thanks to “gauge theory”, which ...