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NOT SO CUT-AND-DRIED

Plastic blocks sliding past each other have challenged the traditional view of friction, revealing earthquake-like rupture waves (shown in illustration above) that spread and break the contacts between blocks (red indicates the most contact, blue the least). Credit: © Science/AAAS

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