In 1665, Lord Christiaan Huygens found that two pendulum clocks, hung in the same wooden structure, oscillated spontaneously and perfectly in line but in opposite directions: the clocks oscillated in ...

Using a virtual pendulum and its real-world counterpart, scientists have created the first mixed reality state in a physical system. Through bidirectional instantaneous coupling, each pendulum "sensed ...

Newton’s Cradle is thought of as the most elegant of executive desk toys. But that 20th-century dinosaur just got run off the road as [Ben Katz]’s Furuta pendulum streaks past in the fast lane, ...

A Grandfather Clock relies on the swing of a pendulum to count time, making it susceptible to error from anything that disturbs the swing; our team aims to mitigate ...

Tick tock: Early metronomes used at the time of Ludwig van Beethoven incorporate a weighted mechanical pendulum with a scale written underneath. (Courtesy: iStock/Stefan-Rotter) “Big data” has been a ...