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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 ...

The physics behind shoe squeaks is surprisingly complex. Phil Roeder via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0 As illustrated by the High School Musical song “Get’cha Head in the Game,” squeaky sneakers ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Jonathan Duncan spent 21 years at Microsoft in various leadership roles. (Photo courtesy of Duncan) Jonathan Duncan was laid off from Microsoft in May after more than two decades at the tech giant.

Trendy running shoe company On is being sued by some customers over what they claim is a defect in the shoes, which they allege emit "a loud, embarrassing and difficult-to-stop squeaking sound ...

Customers have filed a class action lawsuit against On Inc., claiming the Switzerland-based company's running shoes cause "a noisy and embarrassing squeak" when they walk. According to federal court ...

Call this one the case of the squeaky sneakers. On Inc., a Swiss company with North American headquarters in Portland, is facing a class action lawsuit alleging that the CloudTec technology in its On ...