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The unofficial soundtrack of every basketball, squash or hard-court tennis match is the constant high-pitched squeak or shreak of the players’ shoes. But can this squeak be designed out of them while ...

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We’re all familiar with the high-pitched squeak of basketball shoes on the court during games, or tires squealing on pavement. Scientists conducted several experiments and discovered that the geometry ...

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A Harvard scientist is digging into the reason why sneakers make their trademark squeaking sound on basketball courts worldwide. Adithi Ramakrishnan, The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — As he watched ...

The pulses travel along the sole, a bit like how a tablecloth can be snapped into place by sending a wrinkle of motion across it. But in the shoe, the pulses repeat about 4,800 times a second, ...

When shoes slide across a floor, wave-like deformations of the sole can generate squeaking. The pitch of the squeak depends on the rate at which deformations are generated. Bart Weber is at the ...

It’s officially squeak season. The National Collegiate Athletic Association’s March Madness is right around the corner. The National Basketball Association (NBA) is fresh off its All-Star break, with ...

The researchers observed a scaling relationship, in which the squeak frequency depends primarily on the block height — a relationship so precise, that the researchers were able to design rubber blocks ...

It’s not just shoes that squeak when they slide over a hard surface. Bike brakes, rubber tyres, even some biomedical implants such as artificial hips have been known to squeal as soft and hard ...