The new ride, which opened last Memorial Day weekend, was voted the No. 9 new theme park attraction in the USA Today 10Best ...

Gravity is, at heart, a mystery. Yes, we can talk about curvature of space-time and perhaps make analogies with stretched rubber sheets. But we don’t know why mass causes space-time to curve. To put ...

A Twizzlers-themed ride will join the Hersheypark skyline next summer, and it's being referred to as the "tallest Screamin' Swing in the world." The pendulum attraction called Twizzlers Twisted ...

Along with gravimeters and torsion balances, pendulums can be used to measure gravitational force. The period oscillation of the pendulum can be used to measure gravitational acceleration, and in turn ...

Teachers Alison Miller of South Brunswick High School and Darrell Williams of Fisher Middle School in Ewing floated over their science experiments, wearing olive-drab green jumpsuits -- not wings -- ...

Why is gravity so pathetically weak compared to other forces? An elaborate version of a very simple device may reveal the answer. While most of us take gravity for granted, physicists have a big ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Thomas C. Mendenhall, who became ...

Despite more than 200 years of experiments, the best laboratory determinations of the force of gravity have yielded no better than a ballpark figure. Adding to the haziness, metrologists have scarcely ...