Locals and Redditors alike are baffled by a haul of 60 elaborately engraved silver metal cubes pulled from the River Sowe in Coventry in central England. A keen-eyed Redditor has identified them as ...

Walking through a toy store, one of the most recognizable items you’ll see is the iconic cube with six colored sides: the Rubik’s Cube. Chances are you’ve played with one, received it as a gift, or ...

Last August, 30 years after the Rubik’s cube first appeared, an international team of researchers proved that no matter how scrambled a cube got, it could be solved in no more than 20 moves. Although ...

A maths whizz who solved a Rubik's Cube in less than seven seconds held an event for champions to pit their puzzle solving skills against each other. Ben Whitmore, is constantly striving to set a new ...

Solving one Rubik’s Cube can be a tricky task for most us but for one maths magician the colourful puzzle is a piece of cake. Stanford University student Ravi Fernando has taken multi-tasking to a new ...

An engineer noted for his ability to visualize three-dimensional structure was having coffee and doughnuts. Before he dropped a sugar cube into his cup, he placed the cube on the table and thought, ...

The simple Rubik's Cube is a harder problem than most people realize. Using the currently provided best algorithm for solving the cube, for example, would take the computer you're reading this on now ...

If you suspend a Rubik’s Cube near the corner of a room and shine lights at its exposed faces, it will cast square shadows on two walls and the floor. A real-world Rubik’s Cube has a gadget at its ...