Despite hunting for it for decades, scientists have so far been unable to detect any definitive signs of dark matter. But a new detector design, using an array of billions of tiny pendulums, could ...

In 1665, Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens noticed something strange. Two swinging pendulum clocks were found to eventually synchronize when hung together, and it wasn’t until 2002 that the mystery ...

One of the problems with the MythBusters show is that it's only 1 hour long. This means that it leaves many questions unanswered. However, when life give you unanswered questions - you get to answer ...

In 1665, the Dutch researcher Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) was working on a novel clock for ships. At the time, pendulum clocks were the state of the art, and a specially shaped pendulum was ...

A set of 3 pendulums hung from the same support. Two of the pendulums have the same string length but different mass bobs to observe the effect of mass. Two of the pendulum have the same mass bobs but ...

Introduction Did you know that playground swings can provide a good lesson in physics—as well as lots of fun? The back-and-forth motion of a swing is an example of a pendulum. We see pendulums in ...