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 ...

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 ...

BERKELEY, Calif. (CBS) – The problem is as mystifying as it is frustrating: No matter how many times or how tightly you tie your shoelaces, they keep coming undone. Well now science may be able to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Photo by brennaval/flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 One of the first lessons you learn growing up is how to tie your shoe. And during that time, you also learn that your shoelaces will eventually come untied.

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 study that gets to the bottom of why shoelaces unravel could help scientists better understand knotted structures in nature. You could call it shoestring theory - scientists have finally solved the ...

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 ...