Friction plays a central role in diverse systems and phenomena that at first sight may seem unrelated, but which on closer scrutiny are found to display common features that are shared by all ...

Friction is a force that opposes motion. It is present whenever two surfaces rub over each other, such as when you rub your hands together, or when you apply the brakes on a bike or in a car. Friction ...

Why do some people create friction in their workplaces? According to Bob Sutton, a professor of organisational behaviour at Stanford Graduate School of Business, some folks are oblivious when their ...

A strange thing happened when a team of scientists folded a series of ultra-thin sheets of graphene in their laboratory in China. The researchers from the Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics found ...