Houston Museum of Natural Science's Herzstein Foucault Pendulum has stopped after decades, and museum visitors are wondering why. The pendulum at the museum is attached to a 61-foot-long cable. It ...

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

MANSFIELD - Five students at Mansfield Senior High School are being held responsible for damaging the Foucault pendulum at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History while on a field trip last week.

HOUSTON — The Houston Museum of Natural Science is most assuredly a gem, but it's far from hidden. Instead, we're talking about a feature hidden in plain sight: Foucault's Pendulum. Dropped right in ...

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 ...

The Buffalo Museum of Science's impressive 75-foot Foucault pendulum is no longer out of commission, thanks to the efforts of a professor and undergraduate student in UB's Department of Physics. The ...

IIn a back hall of the Buffalo Museum of Science is an unusual display. A heavy metal ball hangs at the end of a long wire stretching down from several floors above. Once it has been set in motion, ...

The Earth, which has spun on its axis for some time with hardly any help from the California Academy of Sciences, will continue to do so today with the blessing of academy management. The giant brass ...

MANSFIELD - Five students at Mansfield Senior High School are being held responsible for damaging the Foucault pendulum at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History while on a field trip last week.