Mark Barsocchini sees knots everywhere he goes. In the scarf draped around somebody’s neck, or the shoelaces we tie every day. He’s entranced by something most of us take for granted. “There’s a lot ...

TOKYO -- A simple knot, a lasso, a figure-eight knot and a bowline knot. These are just a few of the knots that can be tied by a robot developed at the University of Electro-Communications here.

Tangled telephone cords and electronic cables that come to resemble bird nests can frazzle even the most stoic person. Now researchers have unraveled the mystery behind how such knots form. Two ...

SMALL PRINT:MOST OF us curse knots – in our shoe laces, in long tresses, in our ties and in streams of traffic. But some people celebrate them, studying them with delight and disecting them with a ...

I don’t recommend bursting into tears on a sidewalk bordering Washington Square in New York. But as far as public spaces go, it appears to be one where the emotionally overwrought can easily blend in.

Harvard Professor Gary Urton explained how modern technology helped him make a breakthrough in his study of 15th century Incan string records at Thursday's annual Jane Dwyer Memorial Lecture. Urton, a ...

Copper and lutetium metal ions chaperone this molecular strand into a three-twist knot. Credit: Credit: Stuart Jantzen, Biocinematics It’s annoyingly easy to tangle your headphones into a mess of ...