You may not have heard of knot theory. But take it from Bill Menasco, a knot theorist of 35 years: This field of mathematics, rich in aesthetic beauty and intellectual challenges, has come a long way ...

SMALL PRINT:MOST OF us curse knots – in our shoe laces, in long tresses, in our ties and in streams of traffic. But some people celebrate them, studying them with delight and disecting them with a ...

Mark Barsocchini sees knots everywhere he goes. In the scarf draped around somebody’s neck, or the shoelaces we tie every day. He’s entranced by something most of us take for granted. “There’s a lot ...

Venerable bassist Ron Carter nearly accomplished the impossible during the climactic evening of the 15th annual Montreal International Jazz Festival. For decades, jazz soloists have been tempted to ...

A group of chemists from Manchester have successfully tied a series of microscopic knots using individual molecules for the first time, ushering in the advent of a form of nano-scale weaving which ...