I am baffled by gyroscopes. I remember from physics in college they had the bike tire hung by its axle from a rope somehow. They would spin the tire and it would orbit the rope standing upright. If ...

Paul Ceruzzi, Chair of the Space History Department at the National Air and Space Museum, discusses how gyroscopes work. For more information about navigation in ...

MEMS gyroscopes are expected to deliver stable, precise motion sensing in ever more demanding devices, yet hidden phase mismatches inside their control systems can quietly erode that precision. This ...