{"id":234346,"date":"2026-03-31T06:17:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/physicists-discover-magnetic-mechanism-that-challenges-a-300-year-old-law-of-friction"},"modified":"2026-03-31T06:17:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:17:30","slug":"physicists-discover-magnetic-mechanism-that-challenges-a-300-year-old-law-of-friction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/physicists-discover-magnetic-mechanism-that-challenges-a-300-year-old-law-of-friction","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Discover Magnetic Mechanism That Challenges a 300-Year-Old Law of Friction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-discover-magnetic-mechanism-that-challenges-a-300-year-old-law-of-friction2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers found friction can occur without contact, driven by magnetic dynamics, and does not always increase with load. The effect could enable controllable, wear-free technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers found friction can occur without contact, driven by magnetic dynamics, and does not always increase with load. The effect could enable controllable, wear-free technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}