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 ...

If you're shopping for someone who loves puzzles this holiday, Amazon has some great deals on an all-time classic: the Rubik's Cube. More specifically, Amazon is offering big discounts on Smart Cubes, ...

A team of four students at Purdue University has built a robot that can solve a Rubik’s Cube in about one-tenth of a second The robot, which the team has dubbed the “Purdubik’s Cube,” solves the ...

It was fair and square. A specially designed Mistubuishi robot in Japan set a remarkable Guinness World Record for solving a Rubik’s Cube in a split second. The champion TOKUI Fast Accurate ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Matthew Petrohay about his team's undergraduate project at Purdue University. They built a robot that set a new world record for shortest time to solve a Rubik's cube. The ...

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 ...

In a hi-tech David versus Goliath story, a group of undergraduate students at Purdue University built a robot that crushed the world record for solving a Rubik’s cube once held by Mitsubishi, a ...