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 ...

We’ve all surely been baffled by the Rubik’s Cube at some point in our lives, left frustrated at a failure to complete it. But hard as it might seem to believe, solving one of the world’s most famous ...

A quantum Rubik’s cube would be infinitely more complex than the traditional puzzle, but mathematical modelling shows it wouldn’t be unsolvable. In the summer of 2022, Noah Lordi and Maedée ...

The stage is set for the first ever all-digital Red Bull Rubik’s Cube World Cup. More than 2,000 hopefuls have been whittled down to the world’s 30 fastest cubers ahead of November’s virtual final.

It may be surprising to learn that very little memorization is required to solve Rubik's Cube. In fact, it can be solved using only four types of move sequences: cycling 3 corner pieces (for permuting ...

RUBIK’s Cube has stumped tinkerers worldwide since it was created more than four decades ago by Hungarian sculptor Ernő Rubik. Originally called “Magic Cube”, the combination puzzle made its debut in ...