We tie our shoes, we put on neckties, we wrestle with power cords. Yet despite deep familiarity with knots, most people cannot tell a weak knot from a strong one by looking at them, new Johns Hopkins ...

Yet you can show people real pictures of knots and ask them for any judgment about how the knot will behave and they have no clue." The work, newly published in the journal Open Mind , reveals a ...

The researchers showed participants four knots that are physically similar but have a hierarchy of strength. People were asked to look at the knots, two at a time, and point to the strongest one.

We tie our shoes, we put on neckties, we wrestle with power cords. Yet despite deep familiarity with knots, most people cannot tell a weak knot from a strong one by looking at them, new Johns Hopkins ...

I rather like Blood Knots, Luke Jennings’s title. It is both apt – the blood knot is used to connect two lengths of nylon, and its little brother, the half-blood knot, to tie on the hook – and ...

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But what about objects that were equivalent, in a certain sense, to the circle? Consider a mathematical knot: a string that’s been twisted and tied up, its ends then closed to form a loop. From the ...

Having blood in your urine (hematuria) does not always mean you have an underlying abnormality. It may simply be the result of heavy exercise or a side effect of a drug that needs to be changed.

A red blood cell count is a blood test that your doctor uses to find out how many red blood cells (RBCs) you have. It’s also known as an erythrocyte count. Your hematocrit is the volume of red ...

With the right amount, timing, and quality, it can work wonders -- strengthen the immune system, improve blood sugar, even decrease the risk of heart attacks and strokes. Sleep differences have ...