Introduction Looking for a cool and surprising project to show to your friends? Give this activity a stab! Take a potato and a straw—maybe a pencil as well—and challenge your friends to drill holes ...

Splitting logs, building canoes, and "uplifting" wedges! Splitting logs, building canoes, and “uplifting” wedges! From axes to canoes to the forks we eat with, the Curious Crew gets a “cutting edge” ...

Did you know that airplanes and spacecraft are covered in wedges? The wedge shape helps them cut through the air as they fly. To learn more about simple machines be ...

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 ...

When we think of machines, the likes of robots, appliances and manufacturing equipment come to mind, but scientists also classify such common objects as the screw, the lever, the wedge and the wheel ...