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Thanks to modern technology, drafting an email, ordering a meal or looking up that random actor’s name you can’t remember has never been easier. But some are starting to wonder whether the quicker, ...

Earlier this year, columnist and sociologist Kathryn Jezer-Morton coined the term "friction-maxxing." It was her attempt to describe the importance of doing hard things in order to reclaim our ...

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

Researchers at the University of Konstanz have uncovered a new mechanism of sliding friction: resistance to motion that arises without any mechanical contact, driven purely by collective magnetic ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. As he watched the Boston Celtics play from the stands of TD Garden, one noise kept catching Adel Djellouli’s ear. ...

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Parts of devices that are perfectly smooth can still experience friction because of the electrons within them, but a new method may enable researchers to turn it down or fully turn it off. Controlling ...

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