Friendly. Cheap. Efficient. No nonsense. Open all night. Decent food. All the usual “diner” associations apply when it comes to Georgetown’s Square Knot, opened by the owners of the 9lb Hammer next ...

A detailed look at forging a square knot–style hook, highlighting precise hammer work, heat control, and the craftsmanship behind this practical and decorative piece. US strikes Syria targets in ...

In surgical procedures, the last knot of a suture is crucial because it must hold the wound firmly in place to allow proper healing. But many surgeons struggle to apply the perfect tension. Tie it too ...

The tension of conventional surgical sutures can affect wound healing and is dependent on the surgeon’s experience. Imaging and simulations reveal that slipknots can reproducibly store and release ...

It may contain inaccuracies due to the limitations of machine translation. This week, the international scientific journal 'Nature' features the unraveling process of a 'slipknot.' A slipknot is a ...

Inserting easy-to-release slipknots into surgical thread could help surgeons to tie perfect sutures — tight enough to help heal a wound but not so tight that they damage tissue. Researchers worked out ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1876, Peter Guthrie Tait set out to measure what he called the “beknottedness” of knots. The Scottish mathematician, whose research ...

Imagine living sometime around the early 1600s. You're standing on the deck of a wooden ship. The wind's biting, the sky's endless. And your captain's yelling, "Drop the log!" Back then, before sonar ...

Scanning the crowd at a fancy soiree may reveal a wide array of neckties, each fastened with a highly complex mathematical object masquerading as fashion. An entire field of mathematics is devoted to ...

Why is untangling two small knots more difficult than unravelling one big one? Surprisingly, mathematicians have found that larger and seemingly more complex knots created by joining two simpler ones ...

President Trump and his cabinet favor this style for their neck ties. By Jacob Gallagher Jacob Gallagher doesn’t wear ties; he just reports on them. On Tuesday, as news piled up about the Trump ...