A robot built out of Lego can solve a Rubik’s Cube in about 3.2 seconds, but some 40 years after I first picked up the iconic puzzle, I’ve yet to solve it on my own. I assumed that successfully ...

A robot in Japan has set a new world record for solving a Rubik’s Cube in the fastest time. Guinness World Records recognised a time of 0.305 seconds for the Mitsubishi Electric machine, breaking the ...

EAST PEMBROKE — The fun for the roughly 95 kids in the church hall at Maximilian Kolbe Saturday was not just in solving the cube, but in how quickly they could solve it. There were different types of ...

Today's Google Doodle marks the 40th anniversary of the Rubik's Cube: the toy and/or puzzle that has rapidly infuriated and then eternally haunted almost person to have walked this fair Earth since ...

To win the World Cube Championships -- a place where top competitors can solve the frustrating (to the rest of us) Rubik's Cube puzzle in under 10 seconds -- Max Park deftly flipped the squares into ...

Fancy algorithms capable of solving a Rubik’s Cube have appeared before, but a new system from the University of California, Irvine uses artificial intelligence to solve the 3D puzzle from scratch and ...

When it comes to solving the Rubik’s Cube, the focus is usually on speed rather than on how it’s actually achieved. So how about this super-cool video showing a Rubik’s Cube solving itself. Now that’d ...

As a preteen, Max Park couldn't unscrew the cap of a water bottle, let alone try to tackle a Rubik's cube. He lacked the fine motor skills, a symptom of his autism. Now, at 21, Max can solve a Rubik's ...

Forget what you remember about the Rubik’s Cube that’s gathering dust in your mother’s attic with your old He-Mans. The iconic puzzle that gripped the public’s imagination and fell into disfavor just ...

Thirteen-year-old Orion Cahill holds the state record for the fastest 2×2 Rubik’s Cube solved by a California middle school student in sixth through eighth grade, despite only being a Rubik’s cuber ...

Tim Garoni is a Chief Investigator of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers (ACEMS) Zongzheng Zhou is a Research Fellow at the Australian ...