You'd think there's nothing surprising left to discover about water. After all, researchers have been studying its properties for centuries.
Nanophysics
Sep 25, 2025
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Since sending the first human into space in the 1960s, the solution to one key challenge has remained elusive: the efficient and reliable production of oxygen in space. On the International Space Station, this problem is ...
Space Exploration
Aug 18, 2025
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A team of international researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Johns Hopkins University and Duke University has discovered that a century-old theory describing turbulence in fluids also applies ...
Soft Matter
Aug 18, 2025
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Bubbles burst when their caps rupture. Children discover this phenomenon every summer day, but it also underpins key mechanisms for the spread of pollutants, contaminants, and even infectious disease through the generation ...
Soft Matter
Jul 15, 2025
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Osaka Metropolitan University researchers have solved a long-standing mystery in the field of sonochemistry: why do chemical reactions slow down when ultrasonic power becomes too strong?
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 8, 2025
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Researchers have found clouds of cold gas embedded deep within larger, superheated gas clouds—or Fermi bubbles—at the Milky Way's center. The finding challenges current models of Fermi bubble formation and reveals that ...
Astronomy
Jul 7, 2025
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Inspired by naturally occurring air bubbles in glaciers, researchers have developed a method to encode messages in ice.
General Physics
Jun 18, 2025
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A team of scientists from the SETI Institute and the University of California at Davis has documented, for the first time, humpback whales producing large bubble rings, like a human smoker blowing smoke rings, during friendly ...
Astrobiology
Jun 5, 2025
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A recent study has mathematically clarified how the presence of crystals and gas bubbles in magma affects the propagation of seismic P-waves. The researchers derived a new equation that characterizes the travel of these waves ...
Soft Matter
May 21, 2025
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A watched pot never boils, goes the old saying, but many of us have at least kept an eye on the pot, waiting for the bubbling to start. It's satisfying to finally see the rolling boil, behind which complex physical mechanisms ...
Nanophysics
May 2, 2025
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