WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — College and high school teams will test their carpentry skills in this year's local Rube Goldberg Machine Contest on Feb. 23 in Purdue University Armory. The contest, sponsored ...

Dominoes topple, marbles roll, and everyday objects transform into extraordinary chain reactions under the guidance of award-winning children's author Catherine Thimmesh, who brings the captivating ...

David Cannon (from left), Alex Weaver and Matt Miller react to a flawless run of their Purdue Society of Professional Engineers/Society of Professional Hispanic Engineers machine at the Purdue local ...

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 ...

Do you remember the music video for This Too Shall Pass by OK Go? It’s basically three and a half minutes of an elaborate Rube Goldberg machine captured in a single shot—no small feat whatsoever. The ...

OREANA, Ill. (WAND) — 5th graders at Argenta Oreana Elementary School are working together to solve problems and build a unique version of a Rube Goldberg device. The goal is to build a machine that ...

The Schroeder Family Exploreum is looking to open its first phase next spring, and a grant from Arvest Bank, presented Thursday, will make the opening more colorful. Neely Myers, executive director of ...