Knots are not just for shoelaces and sailing lines. In the last decade, physicists have shown that swirling liquids can ...

A century-old physics question had scientists and mathematicians in knots, until two researchers at the University of Chicago annihilated them. Dustin Kleckner, a postdoctoral scientist, and William ...

Q: When is a knot not a knot? A: When it's a quantum computer. Steve Simon explains how a remarkable link between knot theory and certain quantum systems may be useful for quantum information ...