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How it Works: The Artillery-Grade 600 MPH Pumpkin Cannon
DIY An inventive duo's giant homemade air cannon can project a pumpkin--or anything else--at 600 miles an hour Even from his house six and a half miles away, Gary Arold’s son can clearly hear the...
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Happy Halloween from PumpSci!
Science From all of us here at Popular Pumpkin Science, have a happy, safe, mischievous, drunken, costumed, candy-gorged, family-friendly, slightly illegal, well-meaning and in some… From all of us...
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Create A Smoking Pumpkin With An E-Cigarette
DIY How to hack your jack-o'-lantern Want to put your neighbors to shame this Halloween? Pimp your pumpkin with a miniature smoke machine. A modified e-cigarette can create a surprising amount of fog,...
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How To Build A Flameless Hack-o’-Lantern
DIY Fright up the night You can create a realistic fire effect for your jack-o'-lantern by wiring up this safe circuit, which requires no soldering. You can create a realistic fire effect for your...
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Domestication Saved Pumpkins And Squash From Extinction
Environment Something to give thanks for What if pumpkins and squash didn’t exist? Well, that could’ve been a reality when large numbers of the wild forms of pumpkins, squash, and gourds went extinct...
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The Latest Anti-Drone Weapon Is A Pumpkin Cannon
Aviation Watch a Halloween-themed target practice Pumpkins fired at drones knock them out of the sky.
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Pumpkins evolved from a literal genetic (monster) mash-up
Environment And other spooky adventures in plant genetics, just in time for Halloween. Pumpkins are, arguably, the least spooky part of Halloween. They are also the least contentious (see: candy...
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How do you breed a 2,624-pound pumpkin?
Science Other record-breaking produce could fit in a backpack, but pumpkins can be massive. Why is it that we can coax pumpkins to grow beyond a ton, while other record-breaking produce could fit in a...
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