The Department of History and Geography is hosting Punkin’ Chunkin’ With Trebuchet from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday at the ...

It’s November, which means it’s time to send those Jack-O-Lanterns away until next year. The Putnam Museum created an opportunity for people to say goodbye to their creations by ...

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 ...

A high-flying competition took place in York County Friday. The York County School of Technology hosted the annual Punkin’ ...

Make art not war could be the theme this weekend at Da Vinci Science Center, where a trebuchet is lobbing Easter eggs of paint at a canvas Saturday and Sunday. There are no castles under siege. The ...

Engineer and YouTuber Colin Furze has a reputation for building devices and mobiles that are exceptionally dangerous to operate. Such as this spinning knife-belt, or this 360-degree backyard swing.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The 2009 Gadgetoff -- an invitation-only event showing off various technical and artistic innovations -- took place today at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, ...

On this day, instead of launching a dead horse or a 600-pound sow or a flaming piano into the blue sky of this pas­toral ...

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 ...