Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 17—RIPLEY COUNTY — The 13th annual, regional Rube Goldberg Machine Contest hosted by Genesis: Pathways to Success and the ...

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 ...

Rube Goldberg's world of whimsical mechanical inventions lives on as teams of students figure out the wildest ways to prepare a simple breakfast. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and ...

Students in grades 3-12 have the opportunity to participate in a new competition that encourages them to use Minecraft to come up with complicated machinery that accomplishes very little. The North ...

Purdue will host its Rube Goldberg Machine Contest at 11 a.m. on Feb. 28, and the national competition on April 3. Sponsored by Theta Tau national fraternity, this year's contest calls for teams to ...

Zach Umperovitch (in hat) adjusts the PSPE/SHPE machine at the local Rube Goldberg competition Saturday at Purdue. The team won the competition and will compete in the national contest March 31. Also ...

Why did you think of this? To some extent, I'm masochistic. Recently I've been working on a paper that involves TMs and I wrote a small simulator to check my solutions. I'm bored; therefore, we're ...

WAUKESHA -- More than 30 years after taking off, the Rube Goldberg Machine Contest is still challenging young inventors. "We wanted to incorporate everything you see at a carnival," said Noel Barwick, ...

The 2013 Rube Goldberg Machine Contest is now open for registration by international collegiate, high school, and middle school teams. Dec. 5, 2012 2 min read The 2013 Rube Goldberg Machine Contest is ...