The narrator observed a pendulum in the choir, understanding its isochronal motion was governed by the wire's length and π. A magnetic device beneath the floor ensured its perpetual oscillation by ...

At the Houston Museum of Natural Science they recently made a disturbing discovery: their Foucault pendulum had stopped swinging for the first time since its installation in the 1970s. (Video, ...

For the first time in decades, the Foucault pendulum at the Houston Museum of Natural Science has been brought to a halt. Components in the four-story-tall physics demonstration finally gave out, and ...

After nearly a week after people began speculating online what Duolingo was up to, the company behind the language-learning app confirmed on Instagram that it had removed its sign from a former ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Houston Museum of Natural Science's Herzstein Foucault Pendulum has stopped after decades, and museum visitors are wondering why.

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SPARTANBURG, S.C. (WSPA) – The Planetarium Learning Center has officially opened its doors at the Spartanburg Public Libraries Headquarters. Leaders said, after more than two years of planning and ...

Finding new ways to present information and promote learning “is what libraries do,” said Spartanburg County Librarian Todd Stephens. Indeed, since its opening 140 years ago, Spartanburg County’s ...

Describing the harmonic motion of a simple pendulum observed from a rotating reference frame necessitates solving the differential equations governing three-dimensional motion in a non-inertial ...