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

Light does not “think” in any human sense. Still, under the right conditions, it can behave in a way that looks uncannily like a memory system.

The squeaking of sneakers on a gym floor is usually attributed to friction, specifically a stick-slip variety that involves cycles of sticking and sliding between two surfaces. But that model is best ...

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 ...

Another theory held that the forces between two particles falls off exponentially in direct relationship to the distance between two particles and that the factor by which it drops is not dependent on ...

The physics of the spiral pass have baffled physicists and football fans for decades. EMILY KWONG, HOST: ...

In everyday life, designing spaces that both let air flow and absorb sound can be a tricky balancing act. Usually, materials that allow air to pass through—like vents—also let sound escape, making it ...

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN)- Youngstown State University is home to one of the first established Physics Olympics in the country. Almost 50 years ago, Kevin Crowley, a physics teacher at Canfield High ...

The display comprises seven sculptures that are illuminated from two different directions. The result is two very different ...

Dyad AI from JuliaHub is bringing an AI-for-Science environment to product development. Users can model and interrogate ...