When firefighters have to rescue people, the knots they know may be vital tools. Firefighter rope rescue knots are standard, rather than being highly imaginative, and can be used in more than one ...

Consider a short piece of rope—could you guess which knots are more likely to form if you crumple and shake it? Synthetic chemists have long been working on a molecular version of this problem, and so ...

Scientists have developed a way of braiding three molecular strands enabling tighter and more complex knots to be made than has previously been possible. The paper, published in Nature Chemistry ...

(Nanowerk News) Consider a short piece of rope: could you guess which knots are more likely to form if you crumple and shake it? Synthetic chemists have long been working on a molecular version of ...

Using computational predictive models, the scientists identified a shortlist, a kind of 'periodic table', of the most designable knot types, i.e. those knots that could easily self-assemble under ...