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

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

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, ...

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 ...

Quantum computing has captured imaginations for almost 50 years. The reason is simple: it offers a path to solving problems that could never be answered with classical machines. Examples include ...

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 ...