{"id":497406,"date":"2026-03-01T11:35:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T11:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/497406\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T11:35:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T11:35:17","slug":"basketballs-greatest-mystery-finally-solved-by-physicists-newsweek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/497406\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball\u2019s Greatest Mystery Finally Solved by Physicists &#8211; Newsweek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMilgFBVV95cUxNNXFlc00wZ2RON2RYWkEzWjVKaGJabVdQclppSzgycHJUUFN6NHZjOGdleXZ6U1B4bHpDQmNEcHZjc0NMWHZWQTQzTDJScE54UHdpYllwU0lMMFRRa2xJUURESVdCR1hENFNuc0NSMkpLa2tuQk9TdlhTU1k2YW5zeERELW9yQWNDUjdWR0luNDlSWEtLWEE?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Basketball\u2019s Greatest Mystery Finally Solved by Physicists<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Newsweek<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiX0FVX3lxTE16ZGdMeHRVNkZOVDVOeHZkNWN6Sm9tcEtQQ2hWUEtLeWhUUlJOUDBZbmVhc3VlQnhUWGdLS2xWNHRiRWVhNGRrTkczYjQ1UFRGbkJtb0E1TmwxQnl4Y1I4?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Squeaking at soft\u2013rigid frictional interfaces<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Nature<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiV0FVX3lxTE5pbzlfcjhISHF2WkJtLWdvYUJHNFlkVXlFNnZUYzNkcnlmNEJHUVJlSGFBRnNDeS1BWEYzS2FoTDd6QUZsUE9pQVpVMk1jdDhHTVVXNDBzTQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Physics of a Squeak<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMinwFBVV95cUxOdXRPamM5ckh4NnBnOGk1WExnNEpLenVtRDdrczZDQzNDbjZIUlBHYW1IN1NUQ2hxN2xBczJzcmdBWDZtdXNBVXhEa3BmeE5LN3BGYkVOZ0xDLTdZMHVwSjN6Sm5vdXNaNkpOZUl0SGJRRzZVY2Y5WjM5N3FhWUc4WHI1V3Qwc3dwSzJ5OGlGbWhueTBmMmdDZDNzLUFESjg?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The surprising new physics of squeaky basketball shoes<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Scientific American<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMif0FVX3lxTE03M1lyV2hQMGp3QmwxLUwycUJfZ0tqcmhvSklndWRzazhMQ3NMRjMybjF6NVR3Q0RUVXhjRzFXSjNDdnNoaVVFMjI4WERtZElXQzNlLXRGQ0ExMnEyYUtZSUNRZ0FmdGdydWRRTkFMekZ3aDdmd185WlZDR1U0cGM?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The physics of squeaking sneakers<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Ars Technica<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Basketball\u2019s Greatest Mystery Finally Solved by Physicists&nbsp;&nbsp;NewsweekSqueaking at soft\u2013rigid frictional interfaces&nbsp;&nbsp;NatureThe Physics of a Squeak&nbsp;&nbsp;Harvard School of Engineering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[402,2662,199,1728,79,10575,5497],"class_list":["post-497406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-physics","tag-basketball","tag-college-sports","tag-physics","tag-research","tag-science","tag-sound","tag-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}