Study shows 4,000 years of knot-tying hasn’t made us better at understanding them. BALTIMORE — When you tied your shoes this morning, you probably didn’t give much thought to the physics ...

you can tie a sail cover over a sail with a square knot. Also, you can tie the string on a gift or to tie the laces on your shoes. Hold one end of a rope in one hand, and the end of the other rope ...

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has expressed support for some fields of science but has also declared he’d like a “break” in ...

One example is the reef knot (top) vs. the grief knot (bottom). One is considerably stronger than the other. What does this mean, exactly? According to researchers, people were consistently unable ...