Have you ever sat down and thought “I wonder if a trebuchet could launch a projectile at supersonic speeds?” Neither have we. That’s what separates [David Eade] from the rest of us. He didn’t just ask ...

Lexington police are investigating after a projectile was fired through an apartment floor early New Year’s Day.

H. macrantha flowers have both male and female reproductive organs. To avoid mating with themselves, individual flowers go through a male phase and then a female phase. They rely on hummingbirds to ...

Maybe you have noticed how much material there was (for me at least) in last week's MythBusters. One of the myths they looked at was the bus jumping over a gap in the road from the movie Speed. I am ...

The projectile is fired using an electromagnetic design similar to a railgun, at insane speeds around 6.5 km/sec (23,400 km/h, 14,540 mph), or just under 19 times the speed of sound. It's aimed ...

Oh yes. I know I already did this. However, it was a long time ago with crappy looking graphs. I can do better. The textbooks say that the maximum range for projectile motion (with no air resistance) ...

Engineers in England have achieved nuclear fusion by firing a giant gun at a fuel sample. Researchers at First Light Fusion designed the method to be as simple as possible, and a viable alternative to ...

Vomiting is something that everyone will experience at some point. It’s typically accompanied by a wave of nausea, and a queasy feeling in the stomach afterward. ‌ Projectile vomiting is when your ...

This is because projectile vomiting is not just throwing up. It involves more force. Sometimes, a child’s vomit, when "released," can go flying across a room. A child who vomits way too much and with ...

The Office of Naval Research is getting ready to deploy their electromagnetic Railgun for testing for the first time next year. But what is a gun without ammo? The Hyper Velocity Projectile is being ...

(KRON) — The Fremont Police Department said detectives fired a “less-lethal” projectile at a suspect’s car after its driver rammed into detectives’ vehicles multiple times at a car wash. FPD said its ...