No matter how tight you tug, it feels like some shoelaces are doomed to come untied. Fret no longer, as new research from the University of California, Berkeley, has figured out the physics behind why ...

SACRAMENTO - Many of us remember the long-ago day we learned to tie our own shoes. "I learned how to tie my shoes when I was 3 years old," said Kimberly Gomez Santos, a senior at Sacramento State. "My ...

Ian's Shoelace Site, home of several inventive methods for shoe-tying, brings us the "Ian Knot," touted as the world's fastest shoelace knot. We've been tipped off on this several times before, so I ...

Oliver O’Reilly was teaching his daughter to tie her shoes when he realized something: he had no idea why shoelaces suddenly come undone. When he went looking for an answer, it was apparent that no ...

How many years have you been tying your own shoes? Chances are, you’ve been doing it wrong all this time. That’s the result of extensive research conducted by a team at UC Berkeley led by Oliver ...

Ian’s Shoelace Site claims to be the number one shoelace hobbyist site in the world, and says over 11,000 people visit every day. Whether you’re looking for the best knot for your running shoes or the ...

It's a pretty regular part of day-to-day life to have to stop and retie pesky shoelaces that have unraveled. But surprisingly, there has been no good science explaining why this mildly frustrating ...

Scientists have discovered an "invisible hand" constantly working against the knot in your shoelaces. Mechanical engineers from the University of California, Berkeley, carried out a series of ...

Mechanical engineers at UC Berkeley are doing you a huge favor: They just completed a study on why your darn shoelaces keep coming untied. While they couldn’t identify every factor that causes the ...

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The scientific evidence is now clear: we all tie our shoelaces wrong. America’s epidemic of untied shoes can be blamed in part on faulty shoe-tying technique, according to rigorous experiments in a ...