Researchers have uncovered friction without contact—driven entirely by magnetic interactions. As two magnetic layers slide, ...

The relationship between friction and load, quantified three centuries ago, has an exception when the interaction causes magnetic realignment. The discovery won’t let you off the hook when dragging ...

When you fold a flexible material such as a pancake or a tortilla, its behaviour depends on a competition between gravity and elasticity ...

Researchers at the University of Konstanz have uncovered a new mechanism of sliding friction: resistance to motion that ...