GREENFIELD — While most teachers show their students how to simplify problems, Amy Fletcher likes to teach her students how to make the simplest tasks more complicated. The Greenfield-Central ...

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 ...

Students at First Odessa Christian Academy spent Thursday showing their Rube Goldberg machine projects as part of the school’s Rube Goldberg day Thursday in Odessa. Students who participated were ...

Getting complex machines to perform simple tasks was the object of the Rube Goldberg Machines display April 21 at Zachary High School. Seniors partnered up to design complex machines that ranged from ...

A Rube Goldberg-style contraption uses a powerful, focused beam of light, prisms, and magnifying glasses to activate its various mechanisms. Michelle Starr Science editor Michelle Starr is CNET's ...

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

A Brooklyn man has found modest internet fame by creating Rube Goldberg machines -- complicated contraptions designed to elaborately perform simple tasks. "I make chain reaction machines," Joseph ...

I have to admit, this Rube Goldberg machine is pretty friggn’ ingenious—even if it does result in a the gruesome death of a delicious Cadbury Egg. [Telegraph via ...

Decades after Mr. Goldberg, a cartoonist, died, artists and engineers have found creative inspiration in his outlandish inventions. By Sam Corbin What’s the simplest way to open a can? Faced with this ...

I love Rube Goldberg Machines — those inefficient systems, full of convoluted twists and turns that use chain reactions to complete simple tasks.In one of my favorite examples, a tipped milk bottle ...