The combination puzzle known as Rubik's Cube has been giving people carpal tunnel for 50 years now. The cube's creator explains why he did that to us. MARTÍNEZ: Yeah, the creator is an 80-year-old ...

The Rubik's Cube turns 50 this year and, under the ownership of Spin Master, it shows no signs of retirement. The iconic 3-by-3 grid has graced T-shirts, been turned into keychains, inspired ...

Some toys never go out of fashion. Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, Rubik’s continues to be the most popular puzzle cube brand in the world, with around 500 million sold, according to Yahoo ...

Turning a cube into a rotating multi-colored puzzle isn’t terribly difficult. Ernő Rubik did it back in 1974 without the need for a computer. For other shapes, though, like a complicated 3D bunny, you ...

One of the many niche-uses for a 3D printer is building on the work of fiendish puzzle maker Ernő Rubik. While Rubik’s 3x3x3 cube presented 54 colored squares for puzzle solvers to sort by color, this ...

It took a month of twisting and turning for the first person to solve a Rubik's Cube. That person was Erno Rubik, now 79, the iconic puzzle toy's creator. Conceived as a mathematical tool to help his ...

The Rubik’s Cube remains one of the most popular puzzles in the world and seems to be getting a new dimension thanks to the efforts of physicists from the University of Colorado at Boulder. It is ...

The world’s best-selling toy is 40 years old. The first Rubik’s cube was created in 1974 by Erno Rubik, a professor of architecture in Budapest, Hungary. Then known as the “Magic Cube,” it took its ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A 20-year-old Caltech student set a world’s record Saturday for solving the popular Rubik’s Cube puzzle, turning the tiled brain-twister from scrambled to solved in 11.13 seconds.