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 ...

THE Rubik’s cube — which turns 40 this week — is just one of a surprising list of inventions which took the world by storm from behind the iron curtain. Despite the closed nature of the Eastern Bloc ...

Itching for Eestimaa writes about Estonia: “This country is complicated, but attempts to explain it to the outside world often fail. […] Estonia is closer than you think to solving the Rubik's Cube of ...

Vako Marchelashvili, 18, of the former Soviet republic of Georgia, broke the Guinness World Record by solving six Rubik's cubes in one minute and 44 seconds. He did it while under water. Good morning.

Read: Rubik’s Cube in numbers His life-changing idea arrived when he was in his late 20s, a young professor still living at home with his parents. Starting off with just chunks of wood and rubber ...