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 ...

A new study by mechanical engineers at UC Berkeley finally shows why your shoelaces may keep coming untied. It's a question that everyone asks, often after stopping to retie their shoes, yet one that ...

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 ...

The correct way to tie a 'bowknot', which is a general method of tying shoelaces, the most difficult way to tie it, the way to tie it that is hard to untie and looks beautiful, and the way to tie it ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Ian's Shoelace Site" is a site to say as a shoelace large dictionary packed with all kinds of information on shoelaces, such as the type of shoelaces suitable for the application and how to tie the ...