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 ...

Look out, cubing fans, the master of Rubik’s has outdone himself again. Max Park, a 21-year-old California native, was declared the new world record holder last week after solving a 3x3x3 Rubik’s Cube ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. – If you’ve ever tried solving a Rubik’s Cube, it’s likely taken you a while – perhaps a few hours, a few days, a few weeks, or even longer. But how about solving a Rubik’s Cube in ...

In 2010, a group of mathematicians used a bank of supercomputers at Google to show any Rubik's Cube could be solved in 20 moves.

Are you smarter than your smartphone? And how "smart" is that "smart"phone, anyway? At the ARM Developer Conference in Silicon Valley this week, we found out. An HTC Nexus One smartphone was able to ...

Even with some help from the internet, it can take some people hours, if not days or weeks, to solve a Rubik's Cube. But it took Max Park just 3.13 seconds. The 21-year-old Korean American prodigy ...

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 ...

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 ...