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Fret no longer children of planet Earth, as new research from the University of California, Berkeley, has figured out the physics behind why the knots fail and why some shoelaces are more prone to the mistake. Photo by yellowsarah/via Getty Images

Science Apr 11

The science behind why your shoelace knot is doomed to fail

By Nsikan Akpan

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