Science Friction is a wacky animated comedy that follows the story of Woody Woodpecker who finds himself in a predicament when a bumbling scientist with a penchant for bizarre creations sets his ...

You unearth some problems with modern science fiction (15 November, p 5). Future fiction it is, science it ain’t, often – if ever sci-fi was based on science, which is debatable. Dominated by ...

Here’s the rub with friction — scientists don’t really know how it works. Although humans have been harnessing its power since rubbing two sticks together to build the first fire, the physics of ...