It’s amazing how easily a loosely coiled rope can acquire a knot. The same sort of tangling can happen to a long hose lying in an untidy heap in a garden shed, earphone cords connected to a music ...
A 54-atom golden knot is tighter than the knots in DNA and comes close to the theoretical limit of knot size. Reading time 2 minutes I hope the former record-holders aren’t too cross: a team of ...