The College of Engineering at Cal State Long Beach has its own model roller coaster, designed by a former student, that can provide real-life demonstrations of the laws of physics while its toy trains ...

The Electric Eel is not just another thrilling roller coaster. After a series of loops and twists, the SeaWorld attraction pulls riders up an 150-ft-high ascent where they have an upside-down view of ...

3D printing allows someone to, as the name suggests, print something 3D. This extraordinary type of printing has been used in several fields to create toys, puzzles and even things with practical uses ...

With nothing but paper, tape, and a marble as a test vehicle, engineering students at Tyler ISD’s Career and Technology Center put their designs to the test, building roller coasters filled with loops ...

As he plummeted through the air, he was filled not with terror, but with wonder. Greenwood Community High School senior Charlie Jackson fondly remembers a seventh-grade trip to Kings Island. He sat in ...

Riverton Parke students in Jo Dee Biddle’s Advanced Placement calculus class is working on building scale model roller coasters for their first semester project, and they’re doing it in a competitive ...

Introduction Have you ever ridden a roller coaster? Have you ever wanted to design your own? There are plenty of expensive toys and even video games that will let you build your own coasters—but in ...

A marble rolled down a slide and into a funnel, where it spun and slid until it went through a miniature basketball net. Using a marble as one of their tools, Holy Family Grade School students were ...

Six Flags Magic Mountain was quietly laying out plans for an innovative new single rail roller coaster in 2021 just before the Valencia amusement park was shuttered by the coronavirus outbreak and its ...

Six Flags Magic Mountain was quietly laying out plans for an innovative new single rail roller coaster in 2021 just before the Valencia amusement park was shuttered by the coronavirus outbreak and its ...