The question is not how to eliminate friction. The question is how to manage it so it becomes traction and traction becomes ...

How much do you know about friction? Jennifer R. Vail's charming, if sometimes technical, "biography" of the force showcases its amazing and largely overlooked role in everything from climate change ...

Explore how forces and friction work to hold a block against a vertical wall. This video explains normal force, frictional force, and equilibrium conditions, showing how these forces balance to ...

In "Friction," tribologist Jennifer Vail shows how the fundamental force that resists motion keeps driving us forward.

When disagreement is avoided, bad decisions travel faster. When presence becomes optional, trust never has time to form.

Creative work has always depended on friction; the discomfort that comes when opposing forces are allowed to collide rather than be smoothed away.

Opinion polarization is often considered as the primary driver of social friction, leading to exhaustive efforts to force a consensus. However, new research suggests a more pragmatic goal: reducing ...

Commercial aircraft can vary greatly in size and weight, from the Airbus A319, which comes in at just 40 tons when empty, to ...

Many NHL players like Connor McDavid and Nathan MacKinnon skate faster than 20 miles per hour every game. Hall of Famer Bobby Hull was once clocked at 29.3 miles per hour. Scientists once tracked Hull ...

"It was laughable, if there was something to laugh about," said one of the nurses. "There was no way this person ran ...

The secretary of State said Trump “made very clear that the United States was not going to use force or military force.” ...