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

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Dump baking soda into a glass of vinegar and a chemical reaction occurs. Molecules start a chaotic dance, bouncing and bumping into each other. Friction, which primes molecules for ...

In a Columbia University laboratory in New York, physicist Sebastian Will and his team have reached one of ultracold physics’ ...

(Nanowerk News) For 15 years, scientists have been baffled by the mysterious way water flows through the tiny passages of carbon nanotubes — pipes with walls that can be just one atom thick. The ...

For nearly two centuries, textbooks blamed icy spills on pressure and friction, but new simulations tell another story. The ...

The Saarland researchers reveal that the slipperiness of ice is driven by electrostatic forces, not melting. Water molecules in ice are arranged in a rigid crystal lattice. Each molecule has a ...

For nearly 200 years, scientists clung to a simple idea: ice is slippery because pressure or friction melts its surface, creating a thin film of water that lets you slide like Mumble from Happy Feet.

Scientists have now uncovered new velocity and temperature-dependent properties of rubber friction on asphalt -- bolstering the idea that an important component of friction originates when chains of ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina State University professor Jan Genzer has hit on a method for creating the ultimate nonstick surface. Potential applications include covering adjacent disk-drive ...

Computer simulations help materials scientists and biochemists study the motion of macromolecules, advancing the development of new drugs and sustainable materials. However, these simulations pose a ...