For more than 200 years, scientists have argued about a deceptively simple question: why does a sheet of frozen water let us ...

For more than a century, scientists have debated why ice stays slippery, even well below freezing. The most common ...

Caroline Banton has 6+ years of experience as a writer of business and finance articles. She also writes biographies for Story Terrace. David Kindness is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and an ...

The viral wall friction trick is taking over social media. From pencils to full-sized chairs, content creators are testing a wide range of objects to see if the trick works. Wall friction content ...

Think about the last time you made a purchase using your phone. Maybe you were at a coffee shop and when your turn came, you opened your payment app, tapped your phone on the payment device, grabbed ...

I spoke with Bob Sutton about his new book, The Friction Project. Sutton is an organizational psychologist and best-selling author who studies leadership, innovation, organizational change, and ...

This acts when an object is at rest and prevents it from starting to move. It increases up to a certain limit as you apply an external force to initiate motion. This acts when an object is already in ...

Stanford’s Bob Sutton and Huggy Rao on how to boost efficiency and satisfaction while also improving innovation and decision-making. Organizations too often subject their employees and customers to ...

Ever wonder why it’s so hard to slide a heavy box across the floor? Or why you slow down when riding a bike? The answer is friction. Friction both helps and hinders us in our daily lives. As much as ...