Why does placing strands of any material in an enclosed space (as thin as a gold chain in a jewelry box or as thick as a heavy rope in the bed of a pickup truck) almost inevitably result in a tangle ...

Electrical cables, garden hoses and strands of holiday lights seem to get themselves hopelessly tangled with no help at all. Now research has resulted in the first model of how knots form. The study ...

Electrical cables, garden hoses and strands of holiday lights seem to get themselves hopelessly tangled with no help at all. Research at the University of California, San Diego shows how knots form.

Untangling a knot may seem simple, but the theory of knots has tied up mathematicians for decades. Now, mathematicians Joel Hass, of the University of California, Davis, and Jeffrey Lagarias of AT&T ...

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