America’s Next Top Model contestant Alexandra Underwood reflected on falling during an extreme runway challenge that included swinging pendulums. The moment from cycle 14 was featured in Netflix’s ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X During 2010’s cycle 14, contestants were asked to navigate swinging pendulums while walking the ...

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, ...

The pendulum at the museum is attached to a 61-foot-long cable. It typically swings as the Earth rotates, knocking down pegs, until it suddenly stopped this month. The Houston Museum of Natural ...

An unexpected revisit to my earlier post on mouse encoder hacking sparked a timely opportunity to reexamine quadrature encoders, this time with a clearer lens and a more targeted focus on their signal ...

Jose Antonio Kast delivers a speech during the closing event of his campaign, in Santiago, Chile, Nov. 11, 2025 (Sipa photo by Cristobal Basaure Araya via AP Images). Click to share on Twitter (Opens ...

It’s usually tough to tease out clear and resounding voter messages in off-year, hyperlocal elections. Not so much this time. Up and down the ballot, voters Tuesday were mostly going for whichever ...

Last week, the benevolent folks in Puscifer deigned it necessary to not only share the fact that they’ve got a new album titled Normal Isn’t coming out early next year, but they shared some new tunes.

Simple physics may explain how the Easter Island statues could "walk" miles with only a handful of people, but the debate over their transport is far from over. When you purchase through links on our ...