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(PhysOrg.com) -- The problem exists on both a large and a small scale, and it even bothered the ancient Egyptians.

(PhysOrg.com) -- The problem exists on both a large and a small scale, and it even bothered the ancient Egyptians. However, although physicists have long had a good understanding of friction in things like stone blocks being pulled by workers into the shape of a pyramid, they have only now been able to explain friction in microscopic dimensions in any degree of detail.

By Philip Ball of Nature magazine Why are we so complicated? You might imagine that we've evolved that way because it conveys adaptive benefits.

Cancer care in the 19th Century was even more primitive than you might imagine

The truth about "hypallergenic" pets is a bit more complicated than you might imagine