It was a real pyramid scheme. Scientists have proposed a groundbreaking new theory on how Egypt’s Great Pyramid was built, ...

Rochester Firefighters worked quickly Wednesday morning to rescue a person trapped in a vehicle that had gone down a ravine. Rochester first responders rescue a driver from a vehicle after it went off ...

Tabloids have seized on the most headline-friendly takeaway - “pulleys built the pyramid” - but the underlying claim is more specific: the pyramid may have grown “inside-out,” using internal sloped ...

A TikTok video shows a way to retrieve a pizza from the delivery person. Using a pulley system, a box was lowered out of a second-story window. It was then hoisted back up, pizza inside. Good morning.

MARQUETTE TOWNSHIP, MI – A pulley system was used to lower an injured woman off a steep mountain biking trail in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula on Tuesday, WJMN reports. The woman sustained a knee injury ...

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In the world of rope rescue, we use mechanical advantage systems really for two reasons. The first being a force increasing tool and the second, a means of reducing the weight of a load during a ...