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 ...

You’re not so bad at tying your shoelaces after all. A new study conducted at UC Berkeley proves that shoelaces come untied because of an inevitable force of nature. It’s not your speedy looping or ...

Experts at a top university have solved one of the great scientific problems — why your shoelaces come undone. They found repeated impact of the shoe on the floor serves to loosen the knot. Leg swing ...

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 ...

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 ...

A lost shoelace at Michigan State University caused a racial uproar Wednesday after someone mistook it for a noose. MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon released a statement Wednesday morning saying she ...

Michigan State University (MSU) said Wednesday that a student reported a noose hanging outside of her room in a university residence hall -- prompting an investigation and a forceful statement by the ...

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 ...