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 ...

When did Grassley first raise concerns about The Knot? Grassley made his first enquiries about The Knot in March 2025 to the FTC and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Holiday shopping: We found ...

After a year of testing, I discovered the diagram in my original GT knot article was wrong. Here’s the corrected version and a brief explanation why this knot still earns my full confidence. Now that ...

Kate Middleton has turned to her favorite Lover’s Knot tiara once again this evening for the State Banquet at Windsor Castle welcoming President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump. She paired ...

Cabarrus County School District faces lawsuit, former teacher speaks out A New Zealand father who evaded authorities with his 3 children for years is shot dead by the police Drew Barrymore wants to ...

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 ...

In just 120 pages, Perfection captures millennial malaise, design lust and the inevitable disappointment when the perfect home — or life — proves impossible to achieve. “This is the book of the summer ...

Larry Fulton's hands just twisted the fishing line around a few times, he put the tangle up to his mouth and suddenly he had tied a perfect loop to attach a jig to the line. "Wait a minute. Do that ...

Not all DNA looks like the familiar double helix. Sometimes, parts of our genetic code fold into unusual shapes under certain conditions. One such structure known as a G-quadruplex (G4) looks like a ...