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 ...

When the staff at the Queens Museum learned that a traveling exhibition dedicated to Rube Goldberg was touring the country, they knew their museum needed to be a stop. They also knew the museum had to ...

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 ...

It's time again for the annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest at Purdue University. This year's task: select, crush and pitch a 12-ounce aluminum can into a recycling bin in at least 20 steps. The ...

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.

Dive into a hilariously elaborate Rube Goldberg machine that transforms the simple act of drinking water into a theatrical spectacle of chain reactions. From bouncing balls to cascading levers, this ...