What goes up must come down. And what goes way, way up can come down way, way too fast to survive the sudden stop. That’s why [Tom Stanton] built an altitude recording projectile into an oversized ...

Anyone who has fancied owning their very own medieval trebuchet may be interested in a new kit that has launched over on the Kickstarter crowdfunding website starting at just $29, allowing you to ...

Source: NOVA: "Secrets of Lost Empires II: Medieval Siege" This media asset was adapted from NOVA: "Secrets of Lost Empires II: Medieval Siege" In medieval times, one of the most fearsome weapons was ...

'Glitching' in this context refers to launching a rock with an extremely specific set of initial conditions precisely calculated to destroy the outer dynamic system(s). The word is borrowed from video ...

From the June 1992 issue of Car and Driver. From a hillside on his 600-acre farm in England, a middle-aged man named Hew Kennedy surveys the scene. Word of a hurling has gotten around, and a small ...

Few weapons in the annals of military history have left as indelible a mark as the trebuchet. A masterpiece of engineering and ingenuity, this formidable siege engine has witnessed the rise and fall ...

When the sling was added to the trebuchet it gave the tossed projectile more velocity. This meant the trebuchet could send a lighter projectile farther, providing more distance between those who fired ...

The trebuchet was the most fearsome weapon of medieval times, a giant catapult that could lay waste to any fortress by battering its walls with boulders. It’s funny to think, then, that in terms of ...

“A surprising amount of stuff gets wasted every year because consumers can’t get it out of the packaging it came in,” writes Katie Palmer, who covers the science beat at Wired. In her article “The ...

Israeli soldiers used a trebuchet to throw incendiaries near the Lebanese border, a video appears to show. The Israeli military stated this was a local initiative, not a widespread tool, per local ...