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

“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 ...

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

Squeaky shoes are part of the symphony of a basketball game, when rubber soles rasp against the hardwood floors as players jab step, cut and pivot and defenders move their feet to stay in front of ...

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 ...

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

Ever wonder why basketball shoes make that iconic high-pitched squeak? Applied physicist Adel Djellouli explains the ...

There's one remaining undefeated team in men's college basketball: Miami (Ohio). The RedHawks are up to No. 19 in the latest AP Top 25 poll, as of Mar. 2., and are firing on all cylinders. How long ...