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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, ...

When load increases steadily, so does friction, but in the realm of magnetization dynamics, things aren’t so simple.

An international interdisciplinary research team led by Prof. Richard GU Hongri, Assistant Professor of the Division of ...

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At a busy street crossing, people wait for the signal to change. When one person steps out first, others soon follow. Scientists in Amsterdam have found that this same kind of behavior happens at a ...