At the Houston Museum of Natural Science they recently made a disturbing discovery: their Foucault pendulum had stopped ...

Check out Dr. Bob Grober on YouTube. I heard the term “harmonic oscillator” a few years ago and was lost until I found out it was simply a pendulum. Understanding how a pendulum works and how we can ...

A Foucault pendulum is a simple device for observing the Earth's rotation. While such pendulums have been around for more than 150 years and are a staple of the modern science museum, they are ...

A replica of Foucault's famous experiment at the Museo Nazionale della Scienza e Tecnica in Milan, Italy Wikimedia Commons On February 3, 1851, a 32-year-old Frenchman—who’d dropped out of medical ...

Reaction wheels are useful things, typically used by satellites to keep themselves oriented the right way up in space. Turning the reaction wheel creates an equal and opposite torque in the spacecraft ...

A power pendulum of sorts is constantly swinging back and forth between employees and employers. The businesses are back on top these days as employees lose much of the pandemic power they held. But ...

I am going to make a prediction. As people start to get bored with their fidget spinners, they are going to start playing with these double pendulum fidget spinners. The normal spinner has a bearing ...

Action painter Cole Newman poses for a photo with his pendulum paintings at his studio in the Goldmark Cultural Center in Richardson. Inside Cole Newman’s Richardson studio, it seems like every square ...

Where two oppositely magnetized regions meet, there is a so-called domain wall. Under the right conditions, this wall can be made to oscillate like a pendulum, suggesting a new approach to electronics ...

After ten years of making music as Knife Party, the guys behind the project have returned to their drum & bass project Pendulum with two new tracks out today. By Katie Bain On Mar. 20, 2016, Rob Swire ...