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 ...

Upland High School students took to the field with homemade trebuchets Friday, Oct. 6, to test their physics prowess by flinging objects as far as they could. Trebuchets are a type of catapult that ...

SULLIVAN - Sullivan High School students constructed trebuchets this year in physics class. The 14 seniors designed and built four different trebuchets using their own materials. The construction ...

My son had to build a trebuchet for a school science project. It turned into a case of trial and error—and error. Amazing as it may seem, I'd never actually built a ...

The Israeli military has used a medieval-style trebuchet to lob incendiaries across the northern border into Lebanon. A video that first emerged on social media on Thursday appeared to show Israel ...

Advanced Placement Physics students at West Feliciana High School recently investigated how warriors in the Middle Ages used counterweight trebuchets to fling projectiles long distances. Trebuchets ...

Corbin Coulter could have built a volcano. But for his STEM project in Jennifer Sexton's third-grade class, the Lakeview Elementary student wanted to think a little bigger — in the form of a ...

With a hissing "fwoomp," a pumpkin flew from an 80-foot air cannon called Gourds in Space. The projectile nearly disappeared into the clouds over an alfalfa field in the Butler Creek Valley. After an ...