When you push or pull with a simple machine, you are applying a force and doing work. And, if you get more force out of a machine than you put into it, then that machine has a mechanical advantage.

What: Six Simple Machines exhibit at the Warren County Historical Society Where: 105 S. Broadway, Lebanon When: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesdays-Saturdays Cost: $5 for adults, $3.50 for students under 18 ...

GREENFIELD — While most teachers show their students how to simplify problems, Amy Fletcher likes to teach her students how to make the simplest tasks more complicated. The Greenfield-Central ...

Rube Goldberg (1883–1970) was born in an era defined by massive technological upheaval. But where others recoiled at the march of progress, Goldberg saw “the funny,” writes Thimmesh in lucidly ...