In a Columbia University laboratory in New York, physicist Sebastian Will and his team have reached one of ultracold physics’ ...

(Nanowerk News) For 15 years, scientists have been baffled by the mysterious way water flows through the tiny passages of carbon nanotubes — pipes with walls that can be just one atom thick. The ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Dump baking soda into a glass of vinegar and a chemical reaction occurs. Molecules start a chaotic dance, bouncing and bumping into each other. Friction, which primes molecules for ...

For nearly two centuries, textbooks blamed icy spills on pressure and friction, but new simulations tell another story. The team shows that ice can remain slippery near minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit ...

The study of tribology, the science of friction, wear and lubrication, has increasingly benefitted from advances in molecular dynamics simulations, providing detailed atomistic insights into the ...