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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I have to admit, this Rube Goldberg machine is pretty friggn’ ingenious—even if it does result in a the gruesome death of a delicious Cadbury Egg. [Telegraph via ...

What is a Rube Goldberg machine? We've all seen one if not tried to make our own. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a "Rube Goldberg" is defined as "a comically involved, complicated ...

Forget Thomas Edison, Steve Jobs, Alexander Graham Bell. The contributions of George Washington Carver, Eli Whitney, Henry Ford, Nicola Tesla, Leonardo da Vinci – well, maybe not him – pale in ...

In his time he was a world-famous cartoonist, but today he’s best known for these wacky inventions Emily Wilson RUBE GOLDBERG ® is a registered trademark of Rube ...

NOTE TO JOURNALISTS: Video and photographs of past contests are available. Journalists will not be allowed on the stage with the machines during the competition, but they are welcome on stage before ...