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 ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

Physics professor John Dooley, of Millersville University, is so fascinated with pendulums that his wife says he's obsessed. So when proponents of the future Lancaster Science Factory asked the ...

The pendulum at the museum is attached to a 61-foot-long cable. It typically swings as the Earth rotates, knocking down pegs, until it suddenly stopped this month. The Houston Museum of Natural ...