News Headline
Friction: from fingerprints to climate change
Source
Nature
Publication Date
2021-11-15
What links geckos’ feet, plate tectonics, the winter sport curling and spacecraft re-entering the atmosphere? For physicist and science writer Laurie Winkless, the answer is: friction. Her eclectic, sometimes erratic, book Sticky touches on all these and much more as she investigates a force whose effects are felt in every moment of our lives, but which stubbornly resists attempts at theoretical explanation.