Mark Rober, the YouTuber and former NASA engineer responsible for everything from blasting porch pirates with glitter bombs to educating people on how germs spread, has made a squirrel-proof bird ...

The squirrel ninjas triumph again. Mark Rober may be a former NASA and Apple engineer but the squirrels in his backyard are smarter than his obstacle course. After version 1.0 of the squirrel maze ...

[Mark Rober] has a bird feeder in his back yard. Also, squirrels who eat the seed. So, as one does, he built a nine part squirrel obstacle course with a reward of walnuts at the end, and filmed them ...

There’s no question that former NASA engineer Mark Rober is a gift from the geek gods, and a person that no one should EVER cross. We’ve seen his science- and tech-filled hijinks against porch pirates ...

Mark Rober found a creative and hilarious way to squirrel-proof his bird feeder. Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, covering pets, animal rescue and ...

Anyone with a bird-feeder knows that squirrels love to steal treats that aren't meant for them. This moved one former NASA and Apple engineer to come up with a clever way to combat these menaces.

You may have winced at that squirrel catapult we showed you a couple of months ago, but here’s a Rube Goldbergesque contraption that squirrels willingly navigate. Look at those little guys running the ...