Do you remember the music video for This Too Shall Pass by OK Go? It’s basically three and a half minutes of an elaborate Rube Goldberg machine captured in a single shot—no small feat whatsoever. The ...

#NPRreads is a new feature we're testing out on Twitter and on The Two-Way. The premise is simple: Correspondents, editors and producers throughout our newsroom will share pieces that have kept them ...

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — Dominoes topple, marbles roll, and everyday objects transform into extraordinary chain reactions under the guidance of award-winning children's author Catherine Thimmesh, who ...

HODGDON, Maine (WAGM) - Students from Mill Pond School in Hodgdon have been having a cereal drive. Thursday morning 3rd ...

The image of a sad tuna wrap was the impetus for hundreds of hours animating “Busy Bodies,” which is premiering at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival.

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 ...

The fastest path is directly between two points, but where's the fun in that? Children's Museum Houston will be teaching kids all about physics using the outlandish and absurd techniques of Rube ...

Motor City Machine bills itself as a “a giant version of the game Mousetrap,” “a Rube Goldberg Machine of pulleys, dominoes, whizzing balls” and more created by teams from all over metro Detroit. They ...

I do not share the editorial staff’s enthusiasm (Globe, Aug. 25) for the “Rube Goldberg Miracle Machine” at the Schroeder Family Exploreum. More individuals are living downtown as buildings are being ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! The Philadelphia Contraption Contest, coming in April, teaches kids that life is ...