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 ...

We’ve all been there. You’re walking along, when suddenly your shoelaces come untied for some reason. Cue the awkward moment where you’ve got to find a place to stop, bend down, and nonchalantly ...

Mechanical engineers at UC Berkeley are doing you a huge favor: They just completed a study on why your darn shoelaces keep coming untied. While they couldn’t identify every factor that causes the ...

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 ...

Leg swing as we walk makes the end of the laces go into a whipping motion, causing them to slip. And this combination eventually leads to the whole thing unraveling. It showed that when the knot in ...

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, ...