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 ...

For three decades, the physics of superlubricity rested on a beautifully simple principle: misalign the atoms, and friction disappears. Press two crystalline surfaces together at the wrong angle, and ...

Introduction]“When you rub your hands together vigorously, they start to feel warm due to friction”—this is a phenomenon we ...

Through joint research with the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Tokyo, NIMS for the first time experimentally demonstrated friction completely independent of sliding velocity—an ideal ...