The bubble is too fragile to carry secrets, experts say. After months of quarantine, Americans are inevitably craving social interaction. Forming a COVID-19 social bubble, also known as a pod, or a ...

Humanity has been leaking radio noise into the cosmos for just over a century, and those signals now form a vast, expanding ...

LEEDS, England — Scientists have achieved a breakthrough in quantum physics by creating and observing “false vacuum decay.” ...

It has been cold enough, finally, for ice to start forming on our local lakes and ponds. Ice has been accumulating along the edge of our river and almost spanned it before the recent warm, rainy ...

The ice that makes up glaciers isn't 100% solid – it's actually full of air bubbles, some of which formed centuries ago. Inspired by this fact, scientists have developed a method of using bubbles to ...

I’m a sucker for videos that show us new ways to appreciate simple motion, and this video does just that. It lets us see how a ball, falling onto fine sand, makes an air bubble underneath the sand ...

In an internal combustion engine, the fuel is distributed in small droplets in injection valves to maximise combustion. In the engine, the fuel droplets are pressurised to turn into gas and burn. When ...

PROVIDENCE — Have you ever noticed how the bubbles in champagne stream in straight lines to the top of a flute glass? Or how that differs from bubbles in other carbonated beverages — like beer, soda, ...

Brown University physicist Roberto Zenit has a knack for tying his fundamental fluid dynamics research to everyday phenomena, like enjoying a glass of champagne with friends. He noticed one day that ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Bubbles are usually the first sign that water’s coming to the boil, but heating it in a microwave seems to skip this important step. Here’s what’s going on. When you purchase through links on our site ...