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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 ...

Solving a Rubik's Cube is not as impossible as it may seem thanks to these tips. Let's take a page out of a 1980s toy catalog and revisit the Rubik's Cube! First, it's the perfect solution to boredom: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Solving a Rubik's Cube is a challenge for most people. For a team of students from Purdue University's Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, it became an opportunity to redefine ...

The first time I was allowed to travel beyond the Iron Curtain and visit the West was in 1980. I ventured from Hungary to New York for the International Toy Fair, where a puzzle I had invented was ...