SACRAMENTO - Many of us remember the long-ago day we learned to tie our own shoes. "I learned how to tie my shoes when I was 3 years old," said Kimberly Gomez Santos, a senior at Sacramento State. "My ...

Oliver O’Reilly was teaching his daughter to tie her shoes when he realized something: he had no idea why shoelaces suddenly come undone. When he went looking for an answer, it was apparent that no ...

"Ian's Shoelace Site" is a site to say as a shoelace large dictionary packed with all kinds of information on shoelaces, such as the type of shoelaces suitable for the application and how to tie the ...

The complex forces exerted on our laces act like an invisible hand out to trip us up, a finding that could solve mysteries beyond our feet. Eric Mack Contributing Editor Eric Mack has been a CNET ...

When your shoelaces comes untied, the thought that probably pops in your brain is: "Ugh, that's annoying. Guess I'll retie my laces now." But to mechanical engineers, this tedious occurrence ...

You could call it shoe string theory - scientists have finally solved the knotty problem of unravelling laces. Why and how firmly tied shoe laces free themselves has been a maddening mystery ever ...

The laces on the left are tied in a strong knot that lies horizontally. The laces on the right are tied in a knot that makes the bow lie vertically and which, according to new research, can come ...

For more than 40 years, Oliver O'Reilly's shoelaces have been coming untied pretty much every day. And for most of those 40 years O'Reilly didn't think too much about it. But then, about a decade ago, ...