For more than a decade, Upland High science students have waged messy pumpkin-based war, firing medieval trebuchets toward the school’s athletic field.

RICHLAND, MI --For a farm that prizes pumpkins so much, they sure love to destroy them. "These people must really hate pumpkins," said Mark Brown, 21, lead designer for the Medieval Engineering ...

Students experimented to discover how much counterweight is required for Freivalds' trebuchet to launch a four-pound “rock” — sand wrapped in duct tape — to hit a target about 30 feet away.

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 ...

WHAT: The eighth annual fair kicks off the six-week Snohomish Valley Festival of Pumpkins. At this event, pumpkins will be thrown more than 1,800 feet by trebuchets, Middle Age war machines built ...

WEBVTT PERIENCES. 11 NEWS EDUCATION REPORTER TIM TOOTEN HAS THE STORY. REPORTER: IN MANY WAYS WHAT'S TAKING PLACE HERE IS SORT OF A MERGE BETWEEN THE VERY, VERY OLD AND WHAT'S NEW IN STEM EDUCATIO ON ...

Professor Richard Holmes, a British military historian featured in the NOVA film "Medieval Siege," talks here about everyday life in a medieval English castle, giving a sense of how lords and ...

TEL AVIV — Israeli troops stationed on the Lebanese border fired a medieval-style siege weapon known as a trebuchet amid recent fighting against Hezbollah militants, an Israeli military official ...