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 ...

In physics, the classical "Hall effect," discovered in the late 19th century, describes how a transverse voltage is generated ...

In everyday life, designing spaces that both let air flow and absorb sound can be a tricky balancing act. Usually, materials ...

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 ...

Another theory held that the forces between two particles falls off exponentially in direct relationship to the distance between two particles and that the factor by which it drops is not dependent on ...

"The polarized light of the cosmic microwave background is sensitive to new physics that violates parity symmetry," the team ...

After years of confusion, a new study confirms the proton is tinier than once thought. That enables a test of the standard model of particle physics.

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN)- Youngstown State University is home to one of the first established Physics Olympics in the country.

CARSON CITY, Nev. – Canada, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States and Italy all took home medals for curling this Winter Olympics. But even though curling has been around for ...