“This project started with a simple question: why do basketball shoes squeak?” Adel Djellouli, a study co-author and materials scientist at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), ...

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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — This week, the Midlands saw near 30 mile per hour howling winds. This noise is actually called Aeolian tones. The definition is: “sound produced by wind when it encounters an obstacle ...

More and more studies show that rail friction noise and vibrations are a big problem in today’s world, especially in metropolitan areas, where they are negatively affecting people’s quality of life ...