“We were not expecting to find so much richness and depth, from a physics point of view, underneath the sole of a shoe,” study co-author Adel Djellouli, a physicist at Harvard University, tells ...

I f you’ve ever watched a basketball game, you’re familiar with the white noise of staccato squeaks from the players’ shoes ...

A new study explains why basketball shoes make a high-pitched squeaking noise when they rub against the hardwood. The ridges on the sole hold the key ...

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“This project started with a simple question: why do basketball shoes squeak?” Adel Djellouli, a study co-author and ...

The authors also found that if a soft surface is smooth, the pulses are irregular and produce no sharp sounds, whereas ridged ...

A new study uses physics to uncover why sneakers squeak on the basketball court. Scientists slid a shoe against a smooth glass plate over and over, filming it and recording the squeaking sounds with ...

Friction is one of the oldest and most intricate problems in physics,’ yet ‘it is difficult to predict and control’ ...

Basketball shoes on a gym floor, bicycle brakes in need of a tune-up, or the squeal of tires are everyday examples of squeaking sounds. Such sounds have long been attributed to stick-slip friction, or ...

The squeaking of sneakers on a gym floor is usually attributed to friction, specifically a stick-slip variety that involves cycles of sticking and sliding between two surfaces. But that model is best ...

New research has revealed exactly how sounds like squeaking trainers, bike brakes in need of a tune-up or chalk on a blackboard occur and how they ...

On the court, the squeak of basketball shoes is hard to miss. Now, scientists have uncovered why they make that unmistakable ...