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

A New England artist makes music from the imperceptible noises of nature—using tools that usually detect hidden nuclear ...

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

"The screeching sound of peeling tape consists of a train of weak shocks that are generated when the transverse fracture ...

Horses have a vocal trick no one fully understood until now. Scientists have discovered that when a horse whinnies, it produces two completely different sounds at the same time. One is a deep tone ...

An equine makes the low-pitched part of its whinny by vibrating its vocal cords—similar to how humans speak and sing—and the high-pitched part by whistling ...

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

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 ...

A new study finds that horse whinnies are made of both a high and a low frequency, generated by different parts of the vocal ...

High-speed footage reveals shoe squeaks can start with a tiny bolt of lightning — plus, evidence that a debated brain phenomenon exists in humans. Research Article : Djellouli et al.

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.