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, ...

One thing that seems too predictable about our current political situation is that the political pendulum, which has swung far to the right over the last couple of years, is now inevitably swinging ...

For the first time in decades, the Foucault pendulum at the Houston Museum of Natural Science has been brought to a halt. Components in the four-story-tall physics demonstration finally gave out, and ...

The uncertainty of this moment is disorienting—like the early days of the pandemic when everything shifted overnight, and no one knew what to do next. It can feel like everything is unraveling. People ...