In surgical procedures, the last knot of a suture is crucial because it must hold the wound firmly in place to allow proper ...

Think about the last time you tied your shoe: maybe you tied it tightly, or tied multiple knots to ensure the laces wouldn’t come undone. You likely relied on intuition to tell you how much tension to ...

This week, the international scientific journal 'Nature' features the unraveling process of a 'slipknot.' A slipknot is a type of knot that can be easily undone by pulling on its ends. Scientists have ...

A research team from Zhejiang University in China has developed a technology enabling surgical robots to precisely suture ...