From bow ties and shoelaces to sailing boats and climbing ropes, knots are not only very useful for our daily lives, but for mathematics too. Researchers have reported a new mathematical operation to ...

A damaged rope can be totally useless for doing most tasks safely, especially if the damaged section is somewhere in the middle. This simple knot can bypass the damaged section and make the rope ...

Team building exercises with ropes are a good way to encourage critical thinking and communication as well as build cooperation and trust between employees. Activities using ropes involve low physical ...

Artist Alex Buchanan is an accomplished photographer, printmaker, painter and semiotician. But it is his sculptures, in which he utilizes complex knots and enormous segments and strands of rope, that ...

Artist Alex Buchanan is an accomplished photographer, printmaker, painter and semiotician. But it is his sculptures, in which he utilizes complex knots and enormous segments and strands of rope, that ...