Knowing how to tie a knot is an essential set of skills needed in order to stay safe out in the wilderness, and one of the ...

Half a century ago, a brilliant young mathematician named John Horton Conway discovered, of all things, a knot. This wasn’t the sort of knot that you’d be likely to encounter in the real world. You ...

According to researchers, people were consistently unable to tell when presented with different knots in simple applications and asked which knot was stronger or weaker. This failure isn’t ...

The knot function is then embedded in a propagating light beam, with the knots forming as dark interference lines from overlapping laser modes. To experimentally realize the knots, a hologram made ...

The craft of Chinese knotting dates back more than 1,500 years and is not just decorative – knots are “reflective of cultural change”, says Hong Kong-based knot designer Zoe Siu.

A prosthetic hand that weighs about half that of a human hand also enables wearers to carry out intricate tasks, such as tying knots ...