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 ...

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 complex forces exerted on our laces act like an invisible hand out to trip us up, a finding that could solve mysteries beyond our feet. Eric Mack Contributing Editor Eric Mack has been a CNET ...

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 ...

"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 ...

You could call it shoe string theory - scientists have finally solved the knotty problem of unravelling laces. Why and how firmly tied shoe laces free themselves has been a maddening mystery ever ...

Even if you don’t wear lace-up shoes regularly, you are probably still quite familiar with the experience of a knot in your shoe string coming undone, irrespective of how well you thought you had tied ...

The laces on the left are tied in a strong knot that lies horizontally. The laces on the right are tied in a knot that makes the bow lie vertically and which, according to new research, can come ...

At last, the answer to "why do shoelaces get untied by themselves" has been revealed, and it's all thanks to science. UC Berkeley mechanical engineers conducted the study, and the gist of it is that a ...

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 ...

From the moment the cannon fires, until you cross the finish line, the clock is ticking. In triathlon, every second counts, and a quick transition can make all the difference. That's where elastic ...