The humble pendulum may be the reminder we need. The Pendulum’s Downswing I’ve always been fascinated by the pendulum—rushing to one side, then slowing at its highest point, seemingly frozen ...

Enter Jim Deist, who experts agree was the first person to successfully equip a drag vehicle with a parachute system designed to help slow the vehicle from its top speeds. Almost 70 years later ...

His job was to move with the environment. “The pendulum was very far left, and the pendulum is moving right. And it’s fine,” he said. “Our job is to be working with society, working with ...

Passengers will experience a few minutes of microgravity before returning to Earth via parachute-assisted landing in the West Texas desert. NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, bioastronautics ...

A 15-year-old boy plunged to his death after his homemade parachute failed to open properly in a leap from a tower block in Ukraine. Horrifying footage shows Bogdan Firsov falling from the 14th ...

President Donald Trump said Friday he’s committed to making the U.S. a world leader in cryptocurrencies as industry leaders heaped praise on him for reversing what they said had been unfair ...

he said. “A lot of it has to do with letting the pendulum swing the other way.” AP reporter Maria Cheng in London contributed to this story.

Have you ever watched how the playground swing makes a big arc through the sky and wondered what forces make that happen? That swing is a classic example of a ...

Yet even as biologics continue to generate excitement and draw investment in this space, we perceive the pendulum is beginning to swing toward small molecules, thanks in large part to artificial ...

Abstract: This paper presents a dynamic model of a planar flexible inverted pendulum system under the frame of multi-body dynamics by floating frame of reference formulation (FFRF). By proper ...

As the recent and indecisive German federal election results show, things will have to become much worse for the political pendulum to swing back towards common sense. Time though is running out.