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 ...

Life is nothing if not loaded with minor frustrations. Traffic, long lines at the supermarket, crappy Internet service. But perhaps none of those is more annoying than when a shoelace comes untied. It ...

BERKELEY, Calif. (CBS) – The problem is as mystifying as it is frustrating: No matter how many times or how tightly you tie your shoelaces, they keep coming undone. Well now science may be able to ...

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 ...

Hello, Frederick News-Post readers. I'm excited to begin my semimonthly column for the Lifestyle section. For those of you who are scratching your heads at the name, allow me to explain: In the song ...

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, ...

Experts at a top university have solved one of the great scientific problems — why your shoelaces come undone. They found repeated impact of the shoe on the floor serves to loosen the knot. Leg swing ...

Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley have figured out why shoelaces seem to come untied at the worst moments, like when you're... Untangling The Mystery Of Why Shoelaces Come Untied ...