Richard Eugene "Gene" Eichelberger, 82, of Sharpsburg, MD passed away on Saturday, November 22, 2025, at the University of Maryland Hospital Baltimore, MD. He was born on August 6, 1943, in Hagerstown ...

Imagine living sometime around the early 1600s. You're standing on the deck of a wooden ship. The wind's biting, the sky's endless. And your captain's yelling, "Drop the log!" Back then, before sonar ...

After a year of testing, I discovered the diagram in my original GT knot article was wrong. Here’s the corrected version and a brief explanation why this knot still earns my full confidence. Now that ...

The improved clinch knot has long been the standard for tying lures to fishing lines. In fact, it's so universal among anglers that it's sometimes called the fisherman's knot. It's easy to learn, ...

July 31, 1941 October 7, 2025 In his first life, he must have been a bee as this was his entire passion in life to raise, graft queens, make honey and take care of all the bees in the world. Richard ...

It should come as no surprise that Liza Laserow Berglund is a self-described material nerd. The co-founder of Swedish textile brand Nordic Knots has built a sterling reputation for delivering ...

Knots proponents claim to be supporters of Bitcoin's decentralization and its use as censorship resistant money, but their actions do not align with that claim. They claim to fight for mining ...

In 1876, Peter Guthrie Tait set out to measure what he called the “beknottedness” of knots. The Scottish mathematician, whose research laid the foundation for modern knot theory, was trying to find a ...

Scanning the crowd at a fancy soiree may reveal a wide array of neckties, each fastened with a highly complex mathematical object masquerading as fashion. An entire field of mathematics is devoted to ...

Root-knot nematodes (RKNs) are the most widespread soil-borne obligate endoparasites. They infect the roots of many crops and cause significant yield losses. There is only one commercially available ...

Eugene “Gene” J. Richard, 78, a native of the St. Charles Community and long-time resident of Thibodaux, passed away on August 21, 2025. A visitation will be held in his honor on Thursday, August 28, ...