On May 29, a Foucault pendulum was inaugurated in the new Parliament building. The pendulum is designed in a way that it is suspended from the Central Foyer ceiling of India's brand-new Parliament ...

During Foucalt’s life it was already proven that the Earth rotated, thanks to experiments which showed that weights dropped from tall towers fell slightly to one side rather than straight down. This ...

Today, Google’s homepage honours French physicist Léon Foucault on what would have been his 194th birthday with an interactive animation of the Foucault pendulum in action. Born 18 September 1819 in ...

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 ...

A Foucault pendulum, or Foucault's pendulum, named after the French physicist Leon Foucault, was conceived as an experiment to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth; its action is a result of the ...

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 ...

One of the features of the new Parliament building in New Delhi, inaugurated on May 28, is a Foucault pendulum suspended from its ‘Constitutional Gallery’ area. It has been designed and installed by ...

The Foucault pendulum which was displayed for many years in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History was removed in late 1998 to make room for the Star-Spangled Banner Preservation ...

Apparently there's a code to understanding those Works of Art which are Statues of Men-On-Horseback. If both front legs of the horse are off the ground, it means that the rider died in battle. If one ...

FOUCAULT PENDULUM UPDATE....LA Times reporter Bob Pool goes the extra mile and does what I didn't: he picked up the phone and asked Edwin Krupp, the director of the Griffith Observatory, why the pegs ...