image: A zoomed-out view showing a knot held within the apparatus used to control tightening and orientation of knots with respect to a digital camera equipped with a macro lens (not pictured). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 3, 2019 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by V.P. Patil at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, and colleagues was titled, "Topological mechanics of knots and tangles." view more
Credit: Joseph Sandt