From floating camellias to citrus-studded wreaths, these low-lift ideas are just the refresh your home needs this winter.

For decades, biology textbooks taught that DNA’s story could be told with a single image: two elegant strands twisting in a ...

The tension of conventional surgical sutures can affect wound healing and is dependent on the surgeon’s experience. Imaging and simulations reveal that slipknots can reproducibly store and release ...

If you’ve ever stood in front of a mirror before a big event, holding a tie like it’s some sort of puzzle, you’re definitely not alone. The simple knot, also called the Four-in-Hand, is the easiest ...

In 1876, Peter Guthrie Tait set out to measure what he called the “beknottedness (opens a new tab)” of knots. The Scottish mathematician, whose research laid the foundation for modern knot theory, was ...

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. Can ...

Not all DNA looks like the familiar double helix. Sometimes, parts of our genetic code fold into unusual shapes under certain conditions. One such structure known as a G-quadruplex (G4) looks like a ...

Here on land, the speed of a vehicle is recorded in either miles per hour or kilometers per hour. In either case, determining how fast you're moving on land is fairly simple because you can see ...

On a recent afternoon, a dressmaker named Sergio Guadarrama rummaged through a pile of fabric. He and his partner had converted the living room of their home, in Hudson, New York, into a bridal ...

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, Johns Hopkins ...