Foucault’s pendulum experiment led to an increase in the public’s interest in both real-life science and science fiction.

When London’s Millennium Bridge first opened in June 2000, the city was alarmed to discover that the motion of crowds of pedestrians crossing it gave rise to significant shaking and swaying. Londoners ...

Glasses are non-crystalline but solid states of matter in which molecules and atoms are not arranged into a regular crystal ...