Halley Feiffer (above left, with John Pankow) does her best with the unfunny “Medieval Play,” but the audience may want to take advice from “Monty Python” and run away. Joan Marcus The witless ...

The Rack is one of the most infamous torture devices in history – and for good reason. In this video, we uncover how it worked, who it was used on, and why it became the terrifying symbol of medieval ...

A. brevis ants waiting to ambush their giant prey. Schmidt et al. Crucial to the success of these “group ambush” attacks is the location of the traps. The ants set up shop in the branches of plants ...

Developer Foxy Voxel have dropped their first major Going Medieval update, brining new features and content to the settlement building sim. This patch is now live across all versions of the game on ...

Chris Akins was a little nervous when he got stopped by a police officer while hauling his medieval English project around town in the back of his truck. It turned out the police officer wasn’t sure ...

SLIVERS of skin have been stretched to twice their size in a week using a robotic bioreactor that is akin to a medieval rack. The technique could increase the size, viability and availability of skin ...

Tropical ants build and set a trap that resembles a medieval torture rack. They use this ingenious setup to capture insect prey much larger than themselves, then rip the victim apart. These ants have ...

Scientists have stretched slivers of skin to twice their size in a week using a robotic bioreactor that is akin to a medieval rack. Scientists have stretched slivers of skin to twice their size in a ...

There’s a brutal scene at the end of Braveheart where a jacked-up Mel Gibson meets his painful end by getting ripped to literal pieces on the most merciless of medieval torture contraptions, the rack.