Earlier this year, columnist and sociologist Kathryn Jezer-Morton coined the term "friction-maxxing." It was her attempt to describe the importance of doing hard things in order to reclaim our ...

Researchers at the University of Konstanz have uncovered a new mechanism of sliding friction: resistance to motion that arises without any mechanical contact, driven purely by collective magnetic ...

About 83% of human resources decision-makers said AI helps employees work faster, according to a new report from MetLife, a financial services firm. But 67% of those surveyed said AI is "creating new ...

The Army-led Joint Interagency Task Force 401 has made one of its first major steps to securing interoperable counter-unmanned systems: selecting Anduril’s Lattice command-and-control software as a ...

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Parts of devices that are perfectly smooth can still experience friction because of the electrons within them, but a new method may enable researchers to turn it down or fully turn it off. Controlling ...

Right now, many companies are worried about how to get more employees to use AI. After all, the promise of AI reducing the burden of some work—drafting routine documents, summarizing information, and ...

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For the first time, physicists in China have virtually eliminated the friction felt between two surfaces at scales visible to the naked eye. In demonstrating "structural superlubricity," the team, led ...