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 ...

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 ...

A new wrinkle has come up for Nintendo’s patents which could affect the group’s latest efforts to claim ownership of game mechanics in which a player summons another character in battle. Relatively ...

Throughout our history, people have challenged each other’s views and ideas. However, since the invention of the internet, it has become remarkably easy to publicly criticize someone for their words ...

Challenge the Court of Craws to a rematch. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. You might remember how, ten or twenty hours back, you ...

Tesla markets its cars as being among the only ones that can autonomously be "summoned" to your location, making parking a cinch and acting as your personal valet. But how does it actually work, and ...

Rezz is bringing the recently announced “As The Pendulum Swings Tour” to Masonic Temple in Detroit, Michigan in February. Shop the tour via the artist’s official website, and find existing Rezz dates ...

IP lawyers have criticised the U.S. patent system after Nintendo was awarded a Pokémon patent that revolves around summoning a character and letting it fight. While the patent pretty much sums up how ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet. Nintendo may be the happy, shiny face of gaming, but it ...

Nintendo has caught the attention of the gaming world in a different way than usual this week, with a patent that could cause issues for other developers. The patent, designated U.S. Patent No. 12,403 ...