The machine doesn’t care what it’s making—only that it’s making it fast. Frictionless systems optimize output. But meaning, memory, and margin live in the mess it leaves behind. The great smoothing is ...

Friction plays a key role in how ruptures unzip faults in the Earth’s crust and release waves that cause destructive shaking. Yet dynamic friction evolution is one of the biggest uncertainties in ...

Irregularities present on a surface are often described as surface roughness or texture. These surface textures such as grooves and dimples impart friction, which is the force between two sliding ...

I spoke with Bob Sutton about his new book, The Friction Project. Sutton is an organizational psychologist and best-selling author who studies leadership, innovation, organizational change, and ...

In a recent stunt, a Ford crew hitched an all-electric F-150 pickup truck to a freight train filled with 42 more F-150s. Then a driver hit the throttle, and the pickup truck towed the 1.3 ...

Learn about friction cost to make better informed decisions: its implications in investments and loans, and how it helps assess the true cost of financial transactions.

Stanford’s Bob Sutton and Huggy Rao on how to boost efficiency and satisfaction while also improving innovation and decision-making. Organizations too often subject their employees and customers to ...

Friction blisters are small pockets of fluid that develop in the upper layers of the skin in response to an injury from friction. Home remedies and preventive measures may help. A friction blister ...

In the past 25 years, experimental and theoretical investigations of friction have experienced an extraordinary ‘renaissance’ triggered by the fast progress of scanning probe microscopy and ...

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