In a rare move, Amazon.com is increasing friction in one aspect of its customer experience. The company will add a small fee for some returns at UPS stores. This hardly represents a tectonic shift at ...

One type of friction can waste energy even when two perfectly smooth surfaces move against each other, but researchers are ...

Think about the last time you made a purchase using your phone. Maybe you were at a coffee shop and when your turn came, you opened your payment app, tapped your phone on the payment device, grabbed ...

If you want to know how to make a sneaker with better traction in the rain, just ask a snake. That’s the theory driving the research of Hisham Abdel-Aal, PhD, an associate teaching professor from ...

If asked to provide an example of friction at work, many people begin to rub their hands together and speak of the heat being generated. This is the traditional example of friction; however, within a ...

Friction is hard to predict and control, especially since surfaces that come in contact are rarely perfectly flat. New experiments demonstrate that the amount of friction between two silicon surfaces, ...