We tie our shoes, we put on neckties, we wrestle with power cords. Yet despite deep familiarity with knots, most people cannot tell a weak knot from a strong one by looking at them, research finds.

Participants consistently picked the wrong knot, believing the weakest knots were the strongest. And for many among the few ...

There are a lot of things that people are good at guessing just by taking a look, like whether something is sturdy enough, or ...

The art of tying knots goes beyond shoelaces. Delve into the physics and history of knots, and how our understanding of their security may be flawed.

We tie our shoes, we put on neckties, we wrestle with power cords. Yet despite deep familiarity with knots, most people ...

We tie our shoes, we put on neckties, we wrestle with power cords. Yet despite deep familiarity with knots, most people cannot tell a weak knot from a ...