175 years ago, the Foucault pendulum experiment caused a nationwide public science fad. Most people understood what scientists knew about the universe, but Foucault made it feel real. Science was ...

Washington, D.C. (November 9, 2010) -- Walk into nearly any science museum worth its salt and you're likely to see a Foucault pendulum, a simple but impressive device for observing the Earth's ...

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, ...

The first Foucault’s pendulum I ever saw was at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, the city where I was born. The pendulum hung in a stairwell. Its wire was attached to the ceiling four stories ...