Since work began in 2012, the team has retrieved L-shaped bits of metal, possibly used for stretching out a tent or animal skin, as well as an aglet, a tiny tube used to secure the end of a wool lace.

THE WORD is "aglet". A chemist at Berkeley has recently made a molecular version for stopping the ends of certain long intertwined molecules from fraying. Matthew Todd, University Chemical ...

Nandakumar says to think of chromosomes as a shoelace. The ends of your shoelace are coated with a hard plastic shell called ...

It doesn’t matter how you pronounce it, because whichever way you choose to say “GIF” is guaranteed to cheese off about half the people listening. Such is the state of our polarized world ...

There’s a good chance you’ve either seen or used an aglet today. You might even have waggled your minimus, or noticed your glabella in the mirror. Like a drupelet or a ferrule, these are all ...

The ‘pen’ in this process may be an ordinary needle or pin. You can also use a special utensil crafted from a small stick, with a narrow tip made from a metal shoelace aglet. The colourants are ...

three sets of laces made from 70% recycled nylon and 30% recycled polyester (excluding aglet), a compression molded EVA foam midsole, and early stage MetaRocker technology, along with a set of ...

The sophomore has been otherworldly in the final period all season long. Williams left the game at one point, shuffling to the locker room, because the tip of his shoelace (the aglet) split. Jason ...