Bethany High School was put on lockdown Friday afternoon, after a maintenance worker found what looked like a detonated pipe bomb in a school parking lot. Students were kept inside for almost two ...

Classmates cover their ears as Robert Shaw fires his potato launcher that he and his father Chris Shaw built for the Ruby Team Science Fair and Invention Convention on Friday at Maranacook Middle ...

STEP 1: Push one end of the copper tube into the potato. Pull the tube out of the potato. STEP 2: Push the other end of the copper tube into the potato. Pull the tube out of the potato. STEP 3: Use ...

The ballistics of humble potato is a time-honoured research topic for everyone who likes things that go bang. The focus of such work is usually on the launcher itself, with the projectiles being ...

A Texas A&M University student was arrested Thursday night after running from an officer who spotted the 25-year-old wielding a potato launcher in a field off Holleman Drive. A College Station officer ...

All Andrew Franz, his fellow teachers and the students at Hamlin Park School 74 knew was there would be an assembly Monday afternoon with some invited guests. As the dignitaries spoke, one introducing ...