Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ernő Rubik, who turns 80 on July 13, finished the prototype of his "Magic Cube" 50 years ago. Fifty years ago, as he sat in his ...

[Credit: VRGamez/Amazon] When Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Erno Rubik came up with the original ‘Magic Cube’ in 1974, he probably wasn’t expecting his invention to make him one of ...

The Rubik's Cube was very popular when I was a kid and that means I seemed to get one every Christmas for a few years. Mostly they were given by relative who I suspect hated me. The Rubik's Cube was ...

The naysayers said the maddening multicolored cube that Erno Rubik invented 50 years ago would not survive the 1980s. Yet millennials and Generation Z are as nuts about Rubik's Cube as their parents ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This puzzle, The Magic Cube, is an ...

Erno Rubik was an interior design instructor in Budapest in 1974 when he decided that the students in his “Form Studies” class—on the abstract properties of shape—might benefit from a physical model.

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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 ...

Happy Birthday, Rubik’s Cube. Now that you’ve marked your 40th in style (with an ingenious interactive Google doodle), let’s look back at nine fun facts about you (one for each square on a side). It ...