This story is a supplement to the feature "Rubik's Cube Inspired Puzzles Demonstrate Math's "Simple Groups"" which was printed in the July 2008 issue of Scientific American. Solving the authors ...

How to Solve a Rubik's Cube in 5 Seconds—or Less The world record for unscrambling a Rubik's cube keeps dropping, as fleet-fingered speedcubers hone their pattern recognition and "lookahead" skills.

To win the World Cube Championships -- a place where top competitors can solve the frustrating (to the rest of us) Rubik's Cube puzzle in under 10 seconds -- Max Park deftly flipped the squares ...

Solving a Rubik's Cube is an easy way to impress your friends, but you don't need to be a math genius to crack the algorithm. With help from this app spotted by Lifehacker, you don't even need to ...

I assumed that successfully unscrambling a cube would forever remain on my bucket list, but a smart Rubik’s Cube is finally teaching me the strategies to solve one.

Solving a Rubik's cube is really hard, so with the recent news that the record has been broken with the cube solved in just 3.13 seconds, you may be wondering how to solve it yourself ...

She also learned how to solve a Rubik's Cube alongside her fourth graders. "To have the support of the students, the teacher, the parents all working together towards one common goal, that's what ...