Roller coaster engineer Korey Kiepert joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about roller coasters and the people who design them. How do roller coasters work? Who invented the first ...

The University at Buffalo’s Theme Park Engineering Club (UB TPEC) loaded up on coffee for the Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) Thrill Design Competition. The three-day competition, hosted by ...

A group of teenagers huddled around a table in the Augusta County Library on Thursday night, folding pieces of colorful paper. Laughing and talking, the students made chutes, funnels and twists to ...

After 15 long years, something big (and galactic) is finally blasting off at Legoland Florida Resort. The park is officially ...

Richard Brown, who died June 23 after falling in his driveway in Huntington Beach, Calif., was a pioneer in biomechanical testing of theme-park rides. Doc Brown, as his colleagues called him, had a ...

At Magic Kingdom, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad roller coaster, shuttered for refurbishment since January 2025, returns, and ...

Honestly, nothing quite says “I trust modern engineering” like strapping yourself into a high-tech roller coaster and letting physics do its thing. Roller coasters have evolved far past wooden jolts ...