The question is not how to eliminate friction. The question is how to manage it so it becomes traction and traction becomes ...

What do you do when you feel like your entire life is friction? When everything is hard, heavy, and uphill? It would not help us to pretend that optimizing our morning routines will fix the world's ...

In "Friction," tribologist Jennifer Vail shows how the fundamental force that resists motion keeps driving us forward.