The humble shoelace can trace its origins as far back as 3500 BC. Even then, mankind struggled to find ways to keep footwear from moving about. Over the centuries, shoelaces have undergone a number of ...

EXPERTS at a top university have solved one of the great scientific questions of our time — why your pesky shoelaces keep coming undone. They found repeated impact of the shoe on the floor serves to ...

Lacing up your shoes only takes about a minute, but it can feel like a mental eternity. “I knew I had to try the Bread Elastic Shoelaces after seeing scores of TikTok creators deftly pull on even the ...

Unlike most everyone else in the world, Burkard Polster gave this question a lot of thought, often at night. "Instead of counting sheep, I might count lacings," said Polster, a mathematician at Monash ...