Maybe you have noticed how much material there was (for me at least) in last week's MythBusters. One of the myths they looked at was the bus jumping over a gap in the road from the movie Speed. I am ...

Projectile vomiting is a type of severe vomiting in which stomach contents can be forcefully propelled several feet away from you. It usually comes in shorter, more violent bursts than other types of ...

I’ve started recreating many of my numerical model tutorials for introductory physics. In the beginning, I had students use spreadsheets to create models. Of course, spreadsheets aren’t very good for ...

Have you ever sat down and thought “I wonder if a trebuchet could launch a projectile at supersonic speeds?” Neither have we. That’s what separates [David Eade] from the rest of us. He didn’t just ask ...

Figure 1: Formation of Copernicus crater by a low-speed impact. Figure 3: Impact velocity distribution on the Moon. The planetary geology community has not previously considered the possibility that ...

Lexington police are investigating after a projectile was fired through an apartment floor early New Year’s Day.

This is because projectile vomiting is not just throwing up. It involves more force. Sometimes, a child’s vomit, when "released," can go flying across a room. A child who vomits way too much and with ...