Using high-speed photography and digital image correlation techniques, engineers show that friction along a faultline has a complex evolution during an earthquake that is dictated, in part, by slip ...

Businesses today face mounting pressure to deliver frictionless customer experiences while maintaining robust fraud prevention and security measures. Traditional verification methods often force ...

Friction may not be the first problem we think of afflicting medical device design, but it is a real issue for many single-use medical devices like syringes, injection pens, and auto-injectors.

A cook's reaction to cockroaches in the kitchen is a good approximation of a physicist's reaction to friction: not only is it undesirable, it is hard to get rid of. OK, our analogy falls at a last ...

Chemists and physicists shed light on a crucial aspect of friction: how things begin to slide. Using fluorescence microscopy and dedicated fluorescent molecules, they are able to pinpoint how and when ...

Friction is an intrinsic physical phenomenon to curling. Without it, objects in motion would move endlessly, without slowing down. This would cause many safety-related problems: Cars or trains could ...

• Excessive seal friction wastes energy, accelerates wear, and can lead to premature failure. • Too little friction makes a seal prone to leak. • Pressure-activated hydraulic seals minimize both ...

In today's episode, Shini tells us about Static and Kinetic friction. Why is it hard to move a heavy bookcase across a carpeted floor? And why is it easier to keep it moving than it was to get it ...

Razer revealed a brand new mouse mat this week as they have a smoother new low-friction design in the Acari. It's been a minute since we've seen them introduce a new mat as their line is pretty ...

Figure 1: Dynamic friction at an atomic level. (A) Illustration of the CO molecule being manipulated on a copper surface by a metal tip. (B) Changes in the CO molecule's adsorption states while the ...