Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Houston Museum of Natural Science's Herzstein Foucault Pendulum has stopped after decades, and museum visitors are wondering why.

MANSFIELD - Five students at Mansfield Senior High School are being held responsible for damaging the Foucault pendulum at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History while on a field trip last week.

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 ...

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, ...

Shiny metal balls swing hypnotically from museum ceilings worldwide, knocking over tiny objects arranged in a circle on the floor. These Foucault pendulums elegantly demonstrate that Earth is spinning ...

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MANSFIELD - Five students at Mansfield Senior High School are being held responsible for damaging the Foucault pendulum at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History while on a field trip last week.

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