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Friction has memory, say physicists

19 Jun 2018
Seismograph Earthquake Activity
Memory fault: friction study could provide new insights into why earthquakes happen. (Courtesy: iStock/allanswort)
Experiments by Sam Dillavou and Shmuel Rubinstein at Harvard University have, for the first time, re

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