On the court, the squeak of basketball shoes is hard to miss. Now, scientists have uncovered why they make that unmistakable ...

The scientific secret behind squeaky sneakers will ensure you will never hear the noise of a basketball game the same way ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

CARS.COM — If you’re lucky, the squealing or squeaking noise that your brakes make when you first drive your car in the morning, particularly after rain or snow, is just surface rust being scraped off ...

The authors also found that if a soft surface is smooth, the pulses are irregular and produce no sharp sounds, whereas ridged ...