“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 ...

Harvard engineers think they've found the reason basketball shoes squeak, and it's due to pockets of friction between the rubber and the court.

I once had a brand-new pair of white sneakers that were rendered useless in about two weeks. No, I didn’t get them dirty. And yes, they fit me just fine. In fact, they were quite comfy. But they were ...

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 ...