CHICAGO -- A whimsical machine can help you get ready in the morning. Slowly. A team of students from the Purdue Society of Professional Engineers took the top prize at the Rube Goldberg Machine ...

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 ...

From the space race to robots and volcanoes, this year’s Engineering Machine Design Contest at Minnesota State University ...

Why open an umbrella with your hands when you can create a series of 20-plus chain reactions using science and technology skills to accomplish the same goal? That's the challenge put forth by the Rube ...

Rory McIlroy still has his 9-year-old touch. McIlroy, who famously appeared on an Irish talk show in 1999 and successfully chipped balls into a washing machine, again took on the challenge Thursday in ...

Competitors in the annual micro machine contest at Sandia National Laboratories must think small, but they also must think complexly. This year, a tiny mechanical dragonfly the size of a dust mote and ...