The name Rube Goldberg has long been synonymous with any overly-built contraption played for laughs that solves a simple problem through complicated means. But it might surprise you to learn that ...

Comedian, writer and streamer Lena Moon is set to bring her debut solo Rube Goldberg Machine to the Melbourne International ...

[Kevin Norman] got himself a smart body scale with the intention of logging data for his own analysis, but discovered that extracting data from the device was anything but easy. It turns out that ...

Have you ever wondered how you could make a simple task more complicated? Maybe not, but that’s exactly what a group of 4-H’ers did this year as a part of a challenge to think outside ...

and ask why humans need such a Rube Goldbergesque design for a task that can be accomplished with a much simpler, more economical, and perhaps more reliable design.

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - A new exhibit in Burlington celebrates the use of complex machines for simple tasks. “Rube Goldberg: The World of Hilarious Invention” opens to the public on Saturday ...

Seventh graders attending the North Salem Middle School created extraordinary mechanical marvels last week by using ordinary classroom materials. The 12-year-olds enrolled in Sandy McDonough’s STEM ...