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| MLA Full: | "Physicists Don’t Understand Why Knitting Works." YouTube, uploaded by SciShow, 4 September 2025, www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTLvD6-X8WQ. |
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SciShow, "Physicists Don’t Understand Why Knitting Works.", September 4, 2025, YouTube, 10:15, https://youtube.com/watch?v=iTLvD6-X8WQ. |
Knit fabrics are everywhere. You're probably wearing them right now. But even though we've been making them for centuries, there's a lot we don't know about how knitting works, and physicists think that unraveling these mysteries has the potential to give us all kinds of high-tech fabrics of the future.
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