Soft shackles, dog bones, T-fittings and more, are but only some of the many ways to connect ropes to sails. Here are the ...

Lisa Riley's comments left people wondering if she has secretly married her partner of 10 years, Al, after the Emmerdale icon ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1876, Peter Guthrie Tait set out to measure what he called the “beknottedness” of knots. The Scottish mathematician, whose research ...

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 ...

The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge, the world’s tallest, also features a glass cafe and traditional bungee jumps CHINA has unveiled plans for a new extreme attraction that lets jumpers leap more than ...

CHINA has unveiled plans for a new extreme attraction that lets jumpers leap more than 2,000ft from the world’s highest bridge without a rope. The “rope-free” bungee jump from the Huajiang Grand ...

The adults can be seen transporting the children from one end of the river to the other. Tribal villagers in Kadamaha village in Odisha's Kandhamal district risk their lives every day to cross a river ...

FORT PIERCE, Fla. — I knew walking into Fort Pierce Central High School’s JROTC Cobra Battalion that I was going to be in trouble. They’d built this rope bridge as part of their Raider Team training — ...

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 ...

Across the globe, bridges test human courage with dizzying heights and precarious designs. From Northern Ireland's Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge to China's Zhangjiajie Glass Bridge, these crossings offer ...

On either side of a gorge high in the Peruvian Andes, an aging rope bridge sags precariously over the Apurímac River. 1 of 13 A Quechua man walks across the old suspension bridge at the start of the ...