Challenging a 300-year-old law of friction

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

Discovery of a fundamental law of friction leads to new materials that can minimize energy loss

Friction is an everyday phenomenon; it allows drivers to stop their cars by breaking and dancers to execute complicated moves on various floor surfaces. It can, however, also be an unwanted effect ...
Hyperallergic

Leonardo da Vinci's Earliest Notes on Friction Found in Previously Overlooked Marginalia

Some scribbles dismissed in the 1920s by the then-director of the Victoria & Albert Museum as "irrelevant notes and diagrams in red chalk" were recently revealed to represent Leonardo da Vinci's first ...
Nanowerk

1.3 Mechanical friction in the modern world

Delving into history books, we can learn that already thousands of years ago the Egyptians realized that lubricants like water and oil helped reduce the friction of sledges that moved the heavy stones ...
EDN

The Physics of Curling

Friction is an intrinsic physical phenomenon to curling. Without it, objects in motion would move endlessly, without slowing down. This would cause many safety-related problems: Cars or trains could ...