imple machines help us change the amount of force or the direction of the force needed to move an object. Find out how by learning more about levers. Major Funding by the Laura Moore Cunningham ...

The philosopher of science Daniel Dennett once lamented that his peers didn’t take engineering seriously enough. “There are excellent philosophers of physics, philosophers of biology, philosophers of ...

After learning about the lever, wheel and axle, pulley, inclined plane, wedge and screw, the students designed a future Hilltop playground, one that included examples of each simple machine studied.

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.

All the hullabaloo about touchscreen voting machines and the lack of a paper trail got Joyce Dewsbury wondering about the old mechanical lever voting machines. How did they record votes, and was there ...

Everything old is new again! Unsatisfied with the computerized voting system that was put in place in New York three years ago, a bipartisan group of state lawmakers in Brooklyn and Staten Island is ...