A new study uses physics to uncover why sneakers squeak on the basketball court.

“This project started with a simple question: why do basketball shoes squeak?” Adel Djellouli, a study co-author and ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

A US woman living in Australia has been left baffled by an “insane” noise she heard while on a beach on the Gold Coast. Tate Duane, from California, who goes by the TikTok handle “twaynne” has racked ...