Although somebody can set up a Rube Goldberg machine for any reason whatsoever, the best use-cases—we’d argue, at least—involve food. Even if that food is for squirrels, as it is in the RGM in the ...

Each contraption should include up to 75 “steps” or “transfers of energy,” and the final step should have the machine shaking and pouring a box of Nerds. There are four divisions students can enter: ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Two South Florida seventh graders are the first winners of the newly launched CBS4 Sunday Morning Science Lab contest, where once a month, CBS4 honors the student or students who ...

Rochester, N.Y. — Fourth graders at the Harley School are building complex contraptions this week. Students are using their physics lessons to create their own Rube Goldberg, or chain reaction type ...

HODGDON, Maine (WAGM) - Students from Mill Pond School in Hodgdon have been having a cereal drive. Thursday morning 3rd ...

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 ...

Caitlin Diel and her siblings, after more than 100 attempts, successfully built a bathroom contraption to deliver a bar of soap. (Screenshot from YouTube video). NEW YORK — Caitlin Diel waited in the ...

Crappy robots are all the craze these days, with YouTube’s greatest engineering minds working on everything from tazer-happy desks to skin-crawling toilet machines. But crappy Rube Goldberg machines, ...

In 99 percent of cases, saying that an invention is an enormous waste of time would be a negative. In the instance of Rube Goldberg machines, it’s precisely the point. Heck, the more time it wastes, ...

Although somebody can set up a Rube Goldberg machine for any reason whatsoever, the best use-cases—we’d argue, at least—involve food. Even if that food is for squirrels, as it is in the RGM in the ...