As Windy Chien puts it, she’s now living her third life. In her first, she owned and operated San Francisco’s Aquarius Records. Then she made her way to Apple, where she served as a producer at iTunes ...

Without knots, we couldn’t tie our shoes, go fishing, hang a clothesline or hitch our horse outside a saloon. But knots can be troublesome. Sometimes, we run into a knot that cannot be untied. We ...

Deciding whether a knot is fit to be tied just got a bit more scientific. Some knots are stronger than others, but scientists have struggled to explain why. Now, with the help of color-changing fibers ...

For many of us, untangling our earbuds is the extent of our survivalist knot knowledge. Tying knots is just for sailors and mountain climbers, right? Turns out, there are a few simple knots that you ...

Editor's Note: This article was provided by Inside Science. The original is here. (Inside Science) – Knots are everywhere, from laces of shoes to stitches that seal cuts. Sailors and others have known ...

The hypnotic Celtic knot might not be as complicated as it seems. Fourth-year math major Benjamin Liu, from Northampton, Mass., has broken the Celtic knot into 12 standard segments that can be ...

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 ...

All products featured on Glamour are independently selected by Glamour editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, Condé Nast may earn an affiliate commission. The French knot ...

Five thousand years ago, the Egyptians used reef knots to fasten their belts. In the first century, Greek physicians employed both reef knots and clove hitches to tie surgical nooses. Today, these ...