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 ...

The great philosopher Socrates once said that the unexamined life is not worth living. You can summon your own inner strength and wisdom to solve many daily or longstanding problems by using a simple ...

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 ...

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 ...