BROOKLYN, MI – Zipping a zipper seems like a pretty simple task, right? Not if Kimberly Samson’s Columbia Central High School physics students are involved. They’ve taken the task that typically takes ...

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.

By stripping away the fabric tape that’s held zippers together for a hundred years, Japanese clothing giant YKK is designing ...

You may never want to zip up your zipper like a commoner again, after seeing how this crazy Rube Goldberg machine built by students does it. Genius. Rusty Blazenhoff has been deeply involved in ...