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Of course, the study of friction is nothing new; and to explain the 20th-century crisis, and to understand where tribology may yet take us, we must first understand how we got here. So begins Vail’s ...

The familiar heat, wear and general grinding to a halt of friction are all caused by what's going on at the microscopic level when two things rub. And down there, even the smoothest surfaces usually ...

Sometimes you think you have a complete understanding of something and then BOOM—a simple problem throws everything out the window. Let's consider a very basic physics problem involving pushing a ...

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

Irregularities present on a surface are often described as surface roughness or texture. These surface textures such as grooves and dimples impart friction, which is the force between two sliding ...

I spoke with Bob Sutton about his new book, The Friction Project. Sutton is an organizational psychologist and best-selling author who studies leadership, innovation, organizational change, and ...

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In the past 25 years, experimental and theoretical investigations of friction have experienced an extraordinary ‘renaissance’ triggered by the fast progress of scanning probe microscopy and ...

Is friction real? Once, with the quiet certainty of someone who just stayed up all night in the company of equations describing concrete, my college roommate told me that friction was made up. Now, ...

There’s been a massive shift in how consumers measure their satisfaction in the last two years. And the latest barometer for shopping joy? The level of effort a customer requires to get the desired ...