More Human Than Human: What AI Reveals About Us is a collection of essays exploring creativity, technology, and human identity at a time of accelerating automation. It challenges the myth of ...

Conventional wisdom is that ice is slippery because it has a thin layer of water on top, but new research suggests something ...

Scientists have successfully demonstrated a low-cost, self-powered eye-tracking technology that is powered by the friction of ...

Researchers at Qingdao University in China have developed a lightweight, self-powered eye-tracking system designed to assist ...

Virginia Tech advances additive friction stir deposition - creating a strong, defect-free material that can be 3D printed in bulk.

A mad scientist introduces himself to us ("Come! I show you around!") and explains his specialty is crossing things ("I cross a pine mit a apple and I get a pineapple!"). His biggest ambition is cross ...

Fig. 3: These conveyor belt rollers experience rolling contact fatigue during operation. Including plastic components in machinery systems that experience friction and wear results in a number of ...

The Swiss cheese known as Tête de Moine or “monk’s head” is served in a peculiar fashion. A specially designed blade scrapes off thin slices of the cheese wheel, rotating around its surface like a ...

Next iterations of generative AI are pushing the boundaries of deep research, with significant implications for life sciences not yet made tangible. Generative AI has already disrupted entire ...

He works in mysterious ways.

This week's issue of C&EN introduces a new twist to a venerable feature: "Science Friction with Bob Wolke" debuts as a regular feature in Newscripts. Science Friction will appear every other week, and ...