Squeaky shoes are part of the symphony of a basketball game, when rubber soles rasp against the hardwood floors as players ...

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.

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 ...

Squeaky shoes are part of the symphony of a basketball game, when rubber soles rasp against the hardwood floors as players jab step, cut and pivot and defenders move their feet to stay in front of ...

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

New research has revealed exactly how sounds like squeaking trainers, bike brakes in need of a tune-up or chalk on a blackboard occur and how they ...

Correspondence to Filip Gertz Lysdal, Sport Sciences, Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg 9220, Denmark; fgly{at}hst.aau.dk Lateral ankle sprains are common in ...