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 ...

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The friction on a graphene surface can be dynamically tuned using external electric fields, according to researchers. The friction on a graphene surface can be dynamically tuned using external ...

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I've been thinking a lot about the role of friction lately -- or perhaps more importantly, the lack thereof -- in media design. Generally speaking, the user experience design of our most successful ...

Chief meteorologist Mark Dixon takes a look at a little experiment with convection in Sept. 28's Science Sunday.