The familiar heat, wear and general grinding to a halt of friction are all caused by what's going on at the microscopic level when two things rub. And down there, even the smoothest surfaces usually ...

It looks impressive. But this isn't a battle of horsepower or torque—it’s a battle of mass. As long as both vehicles have sufficiently powerful engines, the heavier one will win. Why? Because it's all ...

In a recent stunt, a Ford crew hitched an all-electric F-150 pickup truck to a freight train filled with 42 more F-150s. Then a driver hit the throttle, and the pickup truck towed the 1.3 ...

Say we consider a simple experiment of balancing a wooden rod on two fingers. The finger on the left, (1), will remain stationary, whereas the finger on the right, (2), will be moved toward the left.

An expert offers a primer on popular medical device coatings and their applications. Kevin Guenther A catheter with a lubricious coating. In the world of low friction, lubricious coatings for medical ...