At the Houston Museum of Natural Science they recently made a disturbing discovery: their Foucault pendulum had stopped ...

Houston Museum of Natural Science's Herzstein Foucault Pendulum has stopped after decades, and museum visitors are wondering why. The pendulum at the museum is attached to a 61-foot-long cable. It ...

“The only skyscraping girls’ school in the world” is small (600 students) Mundelein College, which is lodged near Lake Michigan in a 15-story building on Chicago’s North Side. A popular teacher of ...

An unprecedented brain study has delivered fresh clues about consciousness—suggesting it's more about perception than planning. Two leading theories went head-to-head, but neither emerged victorious.

EXCLUSIVE: Norman Reedus has joined Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Phoebe Dynevor in the horror movie Pendulum, which is now underway in New Mexico. Darren Aronofsky is producing for Protozoa and Black Swan ...

In 1851, Leon Foucault began building pendulums. He realized they demonstrate Earth’s rotation, and his projects grew to include a 67-meter pendulum in the Pantheon of Paris, whose bob shifts about 2 ...

EXCLUSIVE: Phoebe Dynevor is set to star opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Pendulum, which Darren Aronofsky is producing and Black Swan scribe Mark Heyman is directing. Aronofsky will produce through ...

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