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Quanta Magazine reporter Devin Powell spotlights how MIT researchers developed a new model to help determine why some knots are stronger than others. The researchers hope “the findings will play a role in designing new ways to tie, loop, twist and otherwise form tangles from rope, adding a new predictive dimension to knot theory.”

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