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 ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A team of St. Olaf College students has won the national Rube Goldberg Machine Contest with their flawless run of a 191-step contraption that inflated and then popped a balloon.

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 ...

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 ...

MENOMONIE, Wis. (AP) — A high school team from central Wisconsin has won a lighthearted contest that rewards creativity over simplicity. The 10 Clark County students were competing in the Rube ...

Since the late 1980s, Purdue University has invited students to make Rube Goldberg machines accomplishing simple tasks in absurdly complex ways. Each machine has to occupy at least a 6-foot cube, ...

A team that designed a machine that took 300 steps to accomplish 25 different tasks has won this year's regional Rube Goldberg Machine Contest. The team from Purdue Society of Professional Engineers ...

Jennifer George, Rube Goldberg's granddaughter, talks with members of Purdue's Society Professional Engineers and Society of Professional Hispanic Engineers team. The Purdue team is claiming a world ...