It's an age-old problem – trying to fix a wobbly table in the pub. The most logical response, people believe, is to stick a couple of coasters under one leg. But there's a much easier way to solve the ...

A mathematician has explained how to stabilise a wobbly table without needing to jam a beer coaster under one of the legs. Australian researcher Dr Burkard Polster of Monash University in Melbourne ...

Labeling every part makes reassembly as stress-free as possible. Use a simple numbering and lettering pattern on the rungs, with all numbers and letters facing forward. This is more important than it ...