The Rubik's Cube dates to my childhood, when it was for leaving on a desk to be fiddled with — or, for a select few strange birds, for actually solving, sometimes very quickly. At that time, knowing ...

The simple Rubik's Cube is a harder problem than most people realize. Using the currently provided best algorithm for solving the cube, for example, would take the computer you're reading this on now ...

A termite starts at the center of the face of any one of the edge cubes and bores a path that takes it through every cube ...

LAKEVILLE, Mass. (AP) — Whenever possible, Nate Eleuterio likes to make his math classes at Freetown-Lakeville Middle School fun. The teacher promised to give extra credit to the student who could ...

If you suspend a Rubik’s Cube near the corner of a room and shine lights at its exposed faces, it will cast square shadows on two walls and the floor. A real-world Rubik’s Cube has a gadget at its ...

In 2010, an international team of researchers proved that no matter how scrambled a Rubik’s cube got, it would require no more than 20 moves to solve it. Their proof, however, relied on the equivalent ...