If humanoid robots are to work alongside us—as doctors, as housekeepers, as anything in between—roboticists need to create dexterous, gentle hands for their machines. As the Economist’s Babbage blog ...

TO KINETIC ENERGY IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE. CATAPULTS ARE A BATTLE WEAPON DATING BACK TO MEDIEVAL TIMES, AND NOW THAT SAME CONCEPT SHAPES OUR DAY TO DAY LIVES. FIRST WARNING METEOROLOGIST MARQUISE MEDA ...

Oakcrest High School students designed, built and tested catapults as part of a class project in their computer-aided drafting and design class. According to teacher Fran Campbell, students researched ...