Science Friction is a wacky animated comedy that follows the story of Woody Woodpecker who finds himself in a predicament when a bumbling scientist with a penchant for bizarre creations sets his ...

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

Researchers have uncovered friction without contact—driven entirely by magnetic interactions. As two magnetic layers slide, their internal forces compete, causing constant rearrangements that ...

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 specific property of a pineapple in April 20's edition of Science Sunday. Chief meteorologist Mark Dixon checks out the science behind trebuchets in ...