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 ...