His latest creation is a machete slingshot, which is really more accurately ... machete with an insane amount of force using thick rubber bands. In the test firing shown in the video below ...

As explained in the paper in Nature and demonstrated in the video below the break, the jumping robot being considered uses rubber bands, carbon fiber bows, and commodity items such as a geared ...

Skov describes it as if the solar storm loads up Earth's magnetic field like pulling back the rubber band of a slingshot. A substorm occurs when the band springs back. The "persistent CME effects ...

Made from multiple layers of tough rubber, they’re designed to last without suffering deformation over time and easily offer the biggest resistance range of the bands listed here, going up to a ...

The world's largest rubber band manufacturer is putting graphene, the strongest material in the world, into its bands. With the right amount of graphene, the bands will be unbreakable and just as ...

And perhaps not by accident, Odyssey 1 is also the name of the spaceship featured in director Mikael Håfström's ("The Rite," "1408") newly released sci-fi feature, "Slingshot," where a trio of ...

The new movie “Slingshot,” a sci-fi thriller about a yearslong mission to Saturn’s moon Titan, is out in theaters today. It follows the crew members, played by Casey Affleck, Laurence Fishburne, and ...

Most of us have probably seen or even pulled off a prank at some point. They’re usually harmless fun, like salt in the sugar ...

In space no one can hear you scream, and in “Slingshot,” no one can tell you if you’re losing your mind or not. That’s the spare premise of Mikael Hafstrom’s psychological thriller ...

Slingshot Aerospace is building software like Google Earth for everything from low Earth orbit to the moon. It maps objects in space and their movement. That data, combined with simulation and ...

So it goes with Casey Affleck’s John in the tense and trippy outer space thriller “Slingshot.” John is part of a three-man crew, along with a fellow astronaut named Nash (Tomer Capone ...