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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

After the Foucault pendulum at the Houston Museum of Natural Science stopped working a while back after maintenance on the ...