Everybody enjoys a good old entertaining Rube Goldberg machine, whether it’s a fantasy Loony Tunes contraption or a real-life ...

When you think of Rube Goldberg, you probably imagine complex, whimsical machines. The wacky devices had a dizzying array of working parts and a prosaic end goal such as, say, ...

Getting complex machines to perform simple tasks was the object of the Rube Goldberg Machines display April 21 at Zachary High School.

A Rube Goldberg machine is a deliberately over-engineered device that performs a simple task in a complex fashion. In this case, the machine blows up a balloon and pops it. The team spent 5,000 ...

Distinctive spiral patterns carved into a small jade ring show that China was using complex machines more than 2500 years ago, says a Harvard graduate student in physics. The spiral-patterned ring ...

Craftsmen in ancient China were using complex machines to work jewellery long before such devices are traditionally thought to have been invented. Dr Peter Lu claims spiral grooves on 2,550-year-old ...