Knotty Problems
One of the most important questions of the century. Why do shoelaces come undone.
Lead researcher Christopher Daily-Diamond said: "When you talk about knotted structures, if you can start to understand the shoelace, then you can apply it to other things, like DNA or microstructures, that fail under dynamic forces.
"This is the first step toward understanding why certain knots are better than others, which no one has really done."
