Whether you're energized by 'living life on hard mode' or recharged by simplicity and flow, your appetite for friction is a ...

Of course, the study of friction is nothing new; and to explain the 20th-century crisis, and to understand where tribology ...

Charging from friction. Flexoelectricity and tribology may explain how. Credit: Laurence Marks/Northwestern University The electric shock you get from shuffling along a carpet might be the first ...

Delving into history books, we can learn that already thousands of years ago the Egyptians realized that lubricants like water and oil helped reduce the friction of sledges that moved the heavy stones ...

(Nanowerk News) If you even bother to think about friction at all, you might think about rubbing your hands together to warm them up. But friction is a big problem out in the world. Parts that rub ...