What scientists long believed were knots in DNA may actually be persistent twists formed during nanopore analysis, revealing ...

SACRAMENTO - Many of us remember the long-ago day we learned to tie our own shoes. "I learned how to tie my shoes when I was 3 years old," said Kimberly Gomez Santos, a senior at Sacramento State. "My ...

No matter how tight you tug, it feels like some shoelaces are doomed to come untied. Fret no longer, as new research from the University of California, Berkeley, has figured out the physics behind why ...

Oliver O’Reilly was teaching his daughter to tie her shoes when he realized something: he had no idea why shoelaces suddenly come undone. When he went looking for an answer, it was apparent that no ...

The scientific evidence is now clear: we all tie our shoelaces wrong. America’s epidemic of untied shoes can be blamed in part on faulty shoe-tying technique, according to rigorous experiments in a ...