GREENFIELD — While most teachers show their students how to simplify problems, Amy Fletcher likes to teach her students how to make the simplest tasks more complicated. The Greenfield-Central ...

Several teams of Purdue students are building the most complicated and often humorous machines to load a CD into a computer and run a program, or into a CD player and play music. The contest, free and ...

Why change a broken light the easy way when you can build a Rube Goldberg machine instead? Jiwi’s Machines takes everyday tasks to a whole new level with this complex and creative contraption. Watch ...

GeekMom Jessamyn reported last week on the end of the annual Easter egg hunt in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and the impact of fear-based parenting. My family never did egg hunts, and as an adult I ...

PHILADELPHIA — This artist is famous enough for his name to become an adjective recognizable over a century. His namesake Rube Goldberg machines make simple tasks ridiculously complicated. But did you ...

WAUKESHA -- Making complex machines to complete simple tasks. That's what more than 300 high school students were doing on Saturday in Waukesha. More than 20 teams from across the country competed in ...

CANASTOTA >> High School physics students were asked to put their engineering skills to the test with a project involving Rube Goldberg-type machines, which they unveiled to the public Thursday. Rube ...

STOCKBRIDGE — You might not hear the phrase as often anymore, but every once in a while, something will be described as a "Rube Goldberg machine." This is not a compliment. Referring back to the work ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Confetti will fly as university students from around the nation find new and inefficient ways to shred paper at the 18th annual National Rube Goldberg Machine Contest at Purdue ...

Fremont Middle School students in Mundelein experimented recently on roller coaster gymnastics to to see how levers, inclined planes and pulleys would affect the speed of a vehicle and how integral a ...