As awesome as trebuchets are, the fact that medieval engineers didn’t create versions capable of launching supersonic projectiles is a bit of a bummer. Fortunately it’s possible to correct this …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/09/creating-a-supersonic-trebuchet/)

Even on the Red Planet, Hexagons are the Bestagons
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Though their pure Platonic Forms may only exist in the world of ideas, certain regular shapes can’t help but keep falling out of natural processes– case in point, the six-sided …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/10/even-on-the-red-planet-hexagons-are-the-bestagons/)

Triggering Lightning with a Rocket
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Lightning, despite being a common and readily-detected phenomenon, is nevertheless difficult to study. One reason is the difficulty of predicting when and where lightning will strike; tall structures do attract …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/08/10/triggering-lightning-with-a-rocket/)