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 ...

Of the many puzzles mathematicians ponder, one is new ways to tie knots. "There are more than six billion different types of knots that have been tabulated by mathematicians. Six billion." David Leigh ...

Humans have known for generations that some knots are stronger than others. This is apparent in sailing, where different types of knots are used for different needs. What exactly makes one type of ...

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

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 ...

Machine learning can tell different types of knot apart just by ‘looking’ at them. For decades, mathematicians have had algorithms that calculate whether any two knots are of the same type — that is, ...

Electrical cables, garden hoses and strands of holiday lights seem to get themselves hopelessly tangled with no help at all. Now research has resulted in the first model of how knots form. The study ...

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 ...

Liquids are generally a little too slippery to be tied in knots. But under the right conditions, special types of liquid can knot themselves and then those knots can form crystals. They may be a step ...