"Cane's is probably the best thing since sliced bread, so it had to be made into a roller coaster," Wilson, 14, said. His coaster featured a drop hill, a double helix, a vertical flat spin and a loop.

The team hopes that the roller coaster treatment could help reduce invasive treatments for kidney stones, which affect over 300,000 people in the US annually, and costs around $2.1 billion.

Math and science are a scream for the 12 students in the course “Roller Coasters: Theory, Design, and Properties,” at Bates College, in Lewiston, Me. The students study roller-coaster design ...

After all, he’s the teacher who gave the students the paper roller coaster project that started six years ago. To stream 13OYS on your phone, you need the 13OYS app. Download the 13OYS app ...

Science We Don’t Know Whether Roller Coasters Cure Kidney Stones But we do tend to accept even the smallest, most preliminary studies as fact.