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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

May 14 (UPI) --A team of Purdue University students built a robot that can solve a Rubik's cube in a record-breaking .103 seconds. Matthew Patrohay, Junpei Ota, Aden Hurd and Alex Berta, students at ...

You might recall that during the Olympics, American gymnast Stephen Nedoroscik (better known as Pommel Horse Guy) was the hero of STEM types everywhere when it was revealed that, as a Rubik’s Cube ...

Watch the pommel horse king — wearing his bronze medals — solve a Rubik's Cube in 15.42 seconds on the Todd Owyoung/NBC/Getty Pommel horse king Stephen Nedoroscik has a few extra tricks up his sleeve!