December 18, 2019 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google A Rubik’s Cube or “magic cube” can be configured over 43 quintillion ways, and every configuration can ...

The Rubik’s Cube has been around for decades. I’ve toyed with the cube, probably in the very late ‘80s or early ‘90s, but never imagined being able to solve one. But wouldn’t it be satisfying if I ...

Fancy algorithms capable of solving a Rubik’s Cube have appeared before, but a new system from the University of California, Irvine uses artificial intelligence to solve the 3D puzzle from scratch and ...

The Purdubik's Cube holds the Guinness World Record for fastest robotic Rubik's Cube solving at 0.103 seconds. The robot surpassed Mitsubishi's record of 305 milliseconds. The cube is solved so ...

If you’ve ever had trouble solving a Rubik’s Cube, a good piece of advice is to break it down into steps. It’s worth a shot: That advice is from the man who invented it. “Problem solving is a very ...

Quantum physics already feels like a puzzle, but now scientists have made it more literal. A team of mathematicians from the University of Colorado Boulder has designed a quantum Rubik's cube, with ...

From square one, 8-year-old Everett McCauley is learning to think outside the box in order to solve one. A third-grader at Bamber Valley Elementary School, Everett is a “cuber” who can solve a 2-by-2 ...

You’d be forgiven for assuming that this video was the work of a talented animator, a visual effects artist, or an illusionist. But the only magic at play here is magnets and a magnificent execution ...

Few things reveal the limits of someone’s problem-solving skills faster than a Rubik’s Cube, the multicolored, three-dimensional puzzle that has befuddled so many since the 1970s. Though the cube has ...

Earlier this year, while putting together a video about the world’s fastest solvers of the Rubik’s Cube, I decided to devote some time to learning to solve the classic puzzle myself. Tyson Mao, a ...