Catapulting satellites into space. Making all the data center heat useful. Why memory technology needs disrupting.

Innovation runs in the veins of Utah, and it always has. Since the dawn of time, people who call Utah home have been ...

Scientists have discovered a “ballista spider” that builds a spring-powered silk trap designed specifically to catch aggressive green tree ants. The ant unknowingly triggers the mechanism itself, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chalk up another entry into the canon of animals that definitively use tools in order to find a meal–in addition to the likes of ...

This article is part of “The Young American Scientists,” which includes stories of 28 extraordinary scientists poised to change the world, as well as a deep look at the past, present and future of ...

Barbara Servante was relaxing at home watching TV on a Saturday night with her husband when an "almighty bang" shattered her peace and quiet. "We both immediately thought it was a gunshot. I was ...

We see some wild radio-controlled builds here at MotorBiscuit, but sometimes a project comes along that completely blows our sense of scale out of the water. Enter YouTube creator and RC master ...

When most silk-spinning spiders hunt, they build a web and wait for prey to blunder into it. But a newly discovered species from Australia instead uses its silk to craft a spring-loaded, cone-shaped ...

A newfound type of spider in Australia builds an elaborate spring-loaded snare to catapult prey into its web. Researchers have nicknamed the ingenious creatures “ballista spiders” after the large ...

Potent statins are the best-proven weapon against heart disease, especially when paired with lifestyle changes. Most people aren’t active enough—and many are underdiagnosed—so starting treatment ...

A man in his 70s was taken to hospital with injuries after catapults were fired towards him, police have said. Kent Police said it was called to a report of five young people firing catapults on ...