In preparing for a talk on the relationship between House Speakers and the Rules Committee (subtitled, “The Speaker’s Committee?”), I took the occasion to reread two Congressional Research Service ...

March 13 -- When a 6.8-magnitude earthquake shook the Pacific Northwest on Feb. 28, it cracked sidewalks, toppled buildings and, in a small shop in Port Townsend, Wash., carved what thousands of ...

This "magnetic pendulum" uses a motor to set it into motion at a specific speed and angle. Magnets within the pendulum's end and the floor repel one another as the pendulum swings, creating a complex ...

This chaotic-looking "double pendulum" follows a large number of rules that govern its motion. Researchers have trained AI to take data from its movements to uncover simple equations that successfully ...