“This suggests that knitting is governed by fundamental mathematical principles—ones that could be harnessed to design materials with precise, tunable behaviors.” 

(We’ve been knitting for so long — centuries — it’s just that no one bothered to figure out the math behind it all until now. It’s always been intuition)
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-theoretical-physics.html

microbiology PhD | fiber artist | synbio | scicomm | really into extremophiles

totally get that! life’s like knitting—sometimes ya drop a stitch, but ya just keep goin’. 🧶😊