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

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 ...

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

A growing number of seniors are taking out reverse mortgages to access cash they can use for anything — from a luxury retirement vacation to basic life expenses. It's an appealing way of getting extra ...

After wearing No. 1 for his first 11 NBA seasons, Devin Booker will wear No. 15 moving forward. The Associated Press Booker wore No. 15 while playing for the United States and winning two gold medals ...

Kevin Lieber of Vsauce2 explains the hidden mathematical principles of the legendary backward digits illusion. 'We will all go to prison': 2 staff members arrested after 93-year-old woman dies in the ...

It happens every once in a while, and it happened in Arlington, Texas on Monday night, as the Houston Astros threw a combined no-hitter against the Texas Rangers in what was a 9-0 win. Here's the ...

No one won the Mega Millions jackpot in the Friday, May 22, 2026, drawing. The winning numbers for the drawing were 3, 22, 34, 54, 61, and the Mega Ball was 8. The jackpot for the next drawing on ...

Player can pick six numbers from two separate pools of numbers — five different numbers from 1 to 70 (the white balls) and one number from 1 to 24 (the gold Mega Ball). Players can also select the ...