The gently moving jewel swaying inside the new Ernest E. Tschannen Science Complex is a Foucault pendulum – shiny and slow-swinging, it is a piece of old-world technology the likes of which have kept ...

A recent study conducted at Tel Aviv University has devised a large mechanical system that operates under dynamical rules akin to those found in quantum systems. The dynamics of quantum systems, ...

The year is 1851, and doubts regarding the Earth spinning is also a massive one, as many people argue over this activity of the planet and how it relates to other entities in the galaxy. However, 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 ...

Earth's Rotation Day commemorates the significant discovery by French Physicist Leon Foucault. In 1851, Foucault proved that Earth rotates on its axis, using a swinging pendulum famously called ...

In the months following Jean Bernard Leon Foucault's early 1851 demonstration in Paris of the earth's diurnal rotation with a vibrating pendulum, members of the entire scientific community, as well as ...