In the 17th century, Christiaan Huygens, inventor of the pendulum clock, noticed a curious phenomenon. When two identical pendulum clocks are mounted next to each other on a wall, their swings ...

[Stephen Hobley] has been experimenting with an electromagnetic pendulum in order to build himself a clock. Through the course of his experiments, he has learned quite a bit about how pendulums ...

This "magnetic pendulum" uses a motor to set it into motion at a specific speed and angle. Magnets within the pendulum's end and the floor repel one another as the pendulum swings, creating a complex ...

Next month a total solar eclipse will be seen across the United States. It is one of the few eclipses to trace a path through several densely populated areas, and that means there's plenty of ...

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 ...