Researchers found friction can occur without contact, driven by magnetic dynamics, and does not always increase with load. The effect could enable controllable, wear-free technologies.

When load increases steadily, so does friction, but in the realm of magnetization dynamics, things aren’t so simple.

The hope for quantum computers is that the devices will be able to solve complex tasks such as predicting how chemicals react or cracking encrypted text. One of the main reasons that the machines are ...

On Wednesday, April 4, 2001, a jury in Somerville found Francis "Butch" Gannone Jr. guilty of murder in the stabbing death of his former girlfriend, Valerie Fasanello, 27, on Friday, Sept. 4, 1998, in ...

Static electricity is so commonplace that it can come across as simple. Other teams are investigating how surface area and velocity during impact might govern charge transfer, and how the breaking ...

This familiar phenomenon has puzzled researchers for centuries, but experiments are finally making sense of its unruly behaviors ...

A Frontier of Physics and Material Science Exploring New Phases of Matter. We’re living in a pretty exciting time for ...

In a major advance applying insights from quantum physics to the inner workings of biology, a team of WashU researchers has ...

Jason Briner, Hao Zeng, Jo Freudenheim, Keith Kirkwood and Jun Zhuang are now members of the prestigious scientific society.

Lest anyone nitpick, let’s tweak that model since Alpha Centauri is actually a double star. So, 24 miles from the Sun’s sand grain we’ll picture two sand grains 8 feet apart. Ruminate on that and ...

Superconductors are materials that conduct electricity with an electrical resistance of zero. Superconductivity is generally ...

Historically, prior to 1820, electricity and magnetism were thought to be separate entities of nature. On April 21, 1820, ...