“This project started with a simple question: why do basketball shoes squeak?” Adel Djellouli, a study co-author and ...

Basketball shoes on a gym floor, bicycle brakes in need of a tune-up, or the squeal of tires are everyday examples of squeaking sounds. Such sounds have long been attributed to stick-slip friction, or ...

Wildfires have increased in frequency and severity over the past few decades. More fires are burning at the wildland-urban interface (WUI), where homes and other buildings meet the natural ...

Particle physics is using ever more interdisciplinary means to seek ever more exotic phenomena, Robert P Crease finds, but ...

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Gravitational waves may leave a permanent timing gap in light, revealing how gravity preserves information through a memory ...

Harvard engineers think they've found the reason basketball shoes squeak, and it's due to pockets of friction between the rubber and the court.

A pair of photons enters an optical maze, and sometimes they leave as something new. Not new in the everyday sense, since both were still photons when they came out.

While the basic form of QKD enables information to be transmitted securely, it does have some weak points. One of them is that a malicious third party could steal the key by hacking the devices the ...

Bedbugs are considered persistent pests that spread in homes and are difficult to eradicate. But ironically, they seem to ...

Explore Kenya's Pure Sciences track within the STEM pathway, a choice for Grade 10 learners leading to in-demand careers in research, engineering, and healthcare.

Data about shoppers’ movements in stores and malls are an unexpected goldmine for the training of humanoid robots, reveals an ex-NASA engineer.