More than 30 members of the Girl Scouts of Central Maryland spent a day at Johns Hopkins University last weekend thinking like engineers as they designed and built miniature roller coasters out of ...

How does one go from wanting to design roller coasters to making sure communities have clean water?“There are not that many companies in the world that design roller coasters, and the work is way more ...

The beautiful thing about test dummies, at least for the engineers testing Six Flags New England’s newly installed giant roller coaster, is that they don’t get sick. No cleanup necessary. The ...

The wind is still as your back is pressed firmly against the seat. Your hands grip the bar of the cart as you and others plummet down the roller coaster’s track. What if that roller coaster was ...

An engineering student from Rhode Island took the "work from home" concept to a whole new level over the summer, building a one-way roller coaster in his grandfather's backyard. Elliot Ryan, a ...

WHITING | Looking toward the future, students at St. John the Baptist School got a taste of teamwork and how to complete a work assignment when the school partnered with Dow Chemical Company from ...

"How many of you have paper in front of you? A pencil? A laptop? Get rid of it!" It's the start of the fall semester, and Professor Art Shoukas is giving a lecture on the cardiovascular system to a ...

Due to a reporting error, Engineering students tour roller coasters, an article that ran Tuesday, referred to King’s Island as Paramount’s King’s Island. King’s Island is actually owned by Cedar Fair ...

What’s the most terrifyingly safe entertainment around? Roller coasters, of course. For just a few minutes, your lizard brain thinks the world is ending while your more rational side can see that, ...

Summer is approaching. For some it means beaches and pools and for others, it means heading out to a local theme park and enjoying the thrill of a roller coaster. Ever wonder what it takes to build a ...