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 ...

SOUTH JORDAN, Utah — Students at a Utah middle school spent their last day solving Rubik’s Cubes to make some pretty stunning mosaics. The 7 th and 8 th grade math students at Elk Ridge Middle School ...

Amesbury Middle School seventh-grade teacher Catherine Hill wanted to teach her students about algebra, problem-solving and perseverance. She also wanted to finally solve a Rubik’s Cube. “I wanted ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seventh and eight grade math students at Elk Ridge Middle School in South Jordan spent their last day of school making mosaics with Rubik's Cubes. Watch the video above to see how their math skills ...

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 ...