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

What scientists long believed were knots in DNA may actually be persistent twists formed during nanopore analysis, revealing ...

If you’ve been anywhere near TikTok or Instagram lately, you’ve probably seen miracle knots, or miracle braids, all over your ...

Many of us will be all too familiar with muscle knots. They’re sore spots that form when bands of muscle become tight and ...

Muscle knots are hard, sensitive areas of muscles that tighten and contract even when the muscle is at rest. These tense muscle fibers can cause pain in other parts of the body when touched. Muscle ...

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 ...

This story was originally featured on Field & Stream. Fishing line has advanced remarkably in the past few decades. Nylon monofilament, fluorocarbon, and so-called “superline” give fishermen ...

We think of data storage as a modern problem, but even ancient civilizations kept records. While much of the world used stone tablets or other media that didn’t survive the centuries, the Incas used ...