Two events are happening in Jefferson County this weekend that can get you out of the house and enjoying the fall weather.

Watch a massive slingshot and trebuchet go head to head in a fascinating comparison of two powerful launching machines. #Slingshot #Trebuchet #Engineering The working '50s actress who was secretly one ...

YouTuber Tom Stanton has, by his own telling, been building trebuchets since the age of 12. The adult Stanton is an aerospace engineer, but trebuchets clearly remain his passion—and in the intro to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Skeleton 150 in his grave at Stirling Castle. (© Crown Copyright HES. Used with permission ...

YouTuber Tom Stanton has posted a video documenting his successful construction of a trebuchet (a catapult) and its launch of a ball at supersonic speed. Tom Stanton undertook this challenge.

Forensic analysis revealed that a 700-year-old skeleton in Scotland could be the first ever recorded casualty of a trebuchet. Europa Press via Getty Images He was catapulted to fame 700 years later. A ...

Researchers believe a young man buried inside a Scottish castle was a victim of the long-feared siege weapon, more powerful than a typical catapult. By K. R. Callaway Today, Stirling Castle is a ...

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During a medieval siege, a trebuchet scored a chance hit on one unlucky defender. A small boulder slammed into his upper back at close to 300 kilometers an hour, smashing bones and crushing him ...

Skeleton 150 was about 165 centimetres tall. Researchers counted more than 160 separate fractures across the remains. The skull alone had been broken in 61 places. The skeleton also had a deep, zigzag ...

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Archaeologists say they've identified the first confirmed victim of one of medieval warfare's most fearsome machines: the trebuchet. The remains, labeled "Skeleton 150," belong to a man in his 20s who ...