Catapult Adventure Park is that building, and once you know it exists, you’ll wonder how you ever spent a rainy Washington ...

Lorne Castle pulled man who fled a Nike store with stolen goods to the ground at a shopping centre in Bournemouth ...

The Royal Navy has successfully conducted the first launch of a domestically developed strike drone from the experimental vessel XV Patrick Blackett. The milestone took place during the Neptune Reach ...

The Australian ballista spider builds a spring-loaded snare that is set off by ants of one species only. The power is in the spider silk.

The ballista spider builds sophisticated spring-loaded snares to catapult its prey. Newly discovered, the ballista spider ...

A study, published this week in the journal Current Biology, describes how the tiny arachnid builds a cone-shaped snare to catapult green tree ants into its web, earning it the nickname “ballista ...

Flung prey can reach speeds of up to 14.4 feet per second, or a little less than ten miles per hour. An insect will land in the spider's main web about a foot above the spring-loaded trap ...

Scientists discovered that the Australian “ballista spider” uses a silk cone trap to catapult prey into its web, a feat of spider engineering never before observed.

When it's safe to approach, the spider wraps the ant in silk until it is ready to eat. The ballista spider's snare exhibits superior energy performance compared with other silk-based catapult systems.

When the US Navy introduced the “bubble” catapult control system in 1975, it marked a turning point that redefined aircraft carrier operations and naval warfare. Suddenly, jets could launch with ...

Catapult and multi-club ownership group Mercury13 have embarked on a new collaboration to advance the research and practice of performance training in women’s soccer. “Everything that their vision and ...