Curling is a thrilling sport filled with strategy, skill, sweeping, surprise and science! Curling is a mesmerizing sport filled with strategy, skill, surprise, a lot of yelling, and science—yes ...
Without the force called friction, cars would skid off the roadway, humans couldn't stride down the sidewalk, and objects would tumble off your kitchen counter and onto the floor. Even so, how ...
In classical physics, anything driven hard enough will eventually heat up, lose coherence, and settle into disorder. A new ...
An interdisciplinary research team of the Institutes of Physical Chemistry and Physics of the University of Freiburg and the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt-am-Main has discovered a ...
The friction between two objects decreases gradually as the objects start to move at ultralow velocities of just a few tens of nanometres a second, two physicists have found. Despite being covered in ...