Physicists at CU Boulder have gone to creative lengths to earn their scouting merit badges for knot-tying. In a study published today in the journal Science, a team of researchers discovered a new way ...

(Nanowerk News) Consider a short piece of rope: could you guess which knots are more likely to form if you crumple and shake it? Synthetic chemists have long been working on a molecular version of ...

J.D. Lenzen, the inventor of fusion knotting, explains knot tying in 15 levels of difficulty, from easy to complex. J.D. starts from the very beginning, with overhead, bowline, and square knots, and ...

From bow ties and shoelaces to sailing boats and climbing ropes, knots are not only very useful for our daily lives, but for mathematics too. Researchers have reported a new mathematical operation to ...

Schematic of a crystal of knots. Credit: Jung-Shen B. Tai and Ivan I. Smalyukh Molecular self-assembly can produce stable 3D knots in chiral liquid crystals. The knots, which have been dubbed ...

It’s annoyingly easy to tangle your headphones into a mess of knots, but tying even a simple knot in a molecular string is a significant challenge. Now, researchers have demonstrated for the first ...

In A Nutshell When two different types of cosmic strings become linked in the early universe, they form stable knots that ...

This simple fix could change your life. July 8, 2014— -- A physicist may have solved string theory. No, not that string theory. Robert Matthews, a visiting scientist at Aston University in ...

Q Now that wearing ties is less common, when I do wear one I want it to look perfect. What is the current knot and choice of accessory (meaning: tie bar, tie pin, tab collar or none of the above)?