Squeaky shoes are part of the symphony of a basketball game, when rubber soles rasp against the hardwood floors as players ...

Tiny, repeating detachments between sole and floor — thousands of times a second — create the distinctive squeak heard on the ...

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

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 ...

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 National Collegiate Athletic Association’s March Madness is right around the corner. The National Basketball Association (NBA) is fresh off its All-Star break, with the playoffs on the horizon.

Djellouli and colleagues slid a sneaker against a smooth glass plate repeatedly. They recorded the squeaks with a microphone and filmed it with a high speed camera to see what was happening under the ...

Friction is one of the oldest and most intricate problems in physics,’ yet ‘it is difficult to predict and control’ ...

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 ...

Analysis showed that tiny regions of the rubber momentarily detach and reattach to the surface thousands of times per second ...

They found that as the shoe grips the floor, tiny sections of the sole flex, losing and regaining contact thousands of times ...

A mom filmed her 1-year-old daughter's adorable reaction to her squeaking shoes. Trying on a new pair of shoes was equally exciting and confusing for one 1-year-old girl. The girl, whose name was not ...