The Rubik's Cube was at its prime in the 1980s, among Care Bears and big hair. In fact, more than 100 million of these puzzles were sold in that decade. But while many 80s fads went the way of the ...

A six-year-old girl from China has set a new women’s world record for solving the 3x3x3 Rubik’s Cube in 5.97 seconds. Cao Qixian, of China’s Jiangsu Province, achieved the feat at the Rubik’s Cube ...

Sam Richard navigates his entire life like it’s a puzzle. While working as a guidance counselor at the Claude Moore Recreation Center in Sterling, he is constantly finding solutions to daily tasks; ...

How do you gain instant popularity in a room full of smart teenagers? Try solving a Rubik's Cube in 4.9 seconds. Lucas Etter, 14, completed a Rubik's Cube in 4.9 seconds Saturday at a competition at ...

Move over, human speedcubers. The Rubik’s Cube world has a new champion. Final-year University of Bristol Computer Science student Matt Pidden, seeking a dissertation project, discovered the robot ...

DOYLESTOWN, Penn. -- Think you're good at solving puzzles? In the time it took you to finish reading this sentence, this teenager broke the world record for being the fastest person to solve a Rubik's ...

Brazil hosted the World Cup last year. Next year, it will host the Summer Olympics. On Sunday, though, the country played host to another international gathering of talented competitors: the Rubik's ...

Stephen Nedoroscik proved that not all heroes wear capes after his stunning pommel horse routine during the men’s gymnastics team final at the Paris Olympics. Some wear glasses. The bespectacled ...

Solving a Rubik's Cube is hard enough for most people. Solving a Rubik's Cube with one hand is even harder. Harder still: designing a lone robot hand capable of solving a Rubik's Cube all by itself.

Ernő Rubik, who turns 80 on July 13, finished the prototype of his "Magic Cube" 50 years ago. Fifty years ago, as he sat in his mother’s apartment in Budapest, Hungary, young professor, Ernő Rubik, ...