The field of artificial intelligence (AI) has created computers that can drive cars, synthesise chemical compounds, fold proteins and detect high-energy particles at a superhuman level. However, these ...

Discover the tricks the planet's fastest speedcubers use to challenge for the Red Bull Rubik's Cube World Cup. And now, you can learn and compete alongside the pros without leaving your sofa. The ...

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.

Rubik's cubes are a great way to pass the time without technology, and they can really help to train your brain to find a solution for the tricky puzzle. And with the record recently broken by 21-year ...

The Rubik’s cube craze ran through the world like wildfire in the 1980s. This simple mechanical puzzle is made from small pieces, called “cubies”, in a 3x3x3 structure in which each of the six faces ...

The Rubik’s Cube has only six faces, each presenting only nine cubelets, but the end result is to offer a mind-boggling number of permutations, only one of which embodies the desired solution. The ...

The Purdubik’s Cube robot was developed by students who are fans of the Rubik’s Cube puzzle. (Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering pic) Students at Purdue University in the US ...

India opener Pratika Rawal is only 25 but she is clearly a woman of many sporting talents, starting with the Rubik's cube. She breaks down the first step of how to attempt solving the cube. "It has an ...

Ungifted. Inexpert. Unskilled. Incapable. And a lot of other "un" and "in" words describing someone who lacks accomplishment, at least where Rubik's Cubes are concerned. I've never solved a Rubik's ...

A woman will be competing against others to solve a Rubik's Cube as quickly as possible when an event is held later this month. Emily Marshall, 19, said there was "a wonderful community" around speed ...