How do you gain instant popularity in a room full of smart teenagers? Try solving a Rubik's Cube in 4.9 seconds. Lucas Etter, 14, completed a Rubik's Cube in 4.9 seconds Saturday at a competition at ...

DOYLESTOWN, Penn. -- Think you're good at solving puzzles? In the time it took you to finish reading this sentence, this teenager broke the world record for being the fastest person to solve a Rubik's ...

A team of Purdue undergraduates has smashed the world record for the fastest machine solve of a Rubik's cube with the absurd time of 103 milliseconds. For reference, it takes 200 to 300 milliseconds ...

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 ...

Records are there to be broken, but when it comes to the fastest time to solve a Rubik's Cube by a robot, it's difficult to see how much more progress can be made: the latest record-breaking time ...

You might recall that during the Olympics, American gymnast Stephen Nedoroscik (better known as Pommel Horse Guy) was the hero of STEM types everywhere when it was revealed that, as a Rubik’s Cube ...

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And you thought that Lego castle you built as a kid was impressive. Two engineers in England have set the world record for completing a Rubik's Cube with a robot made from the ubiquitous plastic ...