A soap bubble’s swan song is a quiet “pfttt.” Put your ear next to a soap bubble, and you might hear a high-pitched sound as it bursts. Now, scientists have characterized that sound using an array of ...

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As fields of crops face a decline in bees bumbling between blossoms, bubbles may offer a new way to spread pollen between crops. As Cara Giaimo reports for the New York Times, farmers struggling with ...

In a soap bubble, the Marangoni effect helps stabilize the bubble by creating a more even distribution of surface tension. Prompted by the inquisitiveness of a high school intern, researchers at ...

It’s been suggested by a body of research that temperament can be characterized as either oriented to approach or avoidance and that, moreover, people with approach temperaments are more attuned to ...

Some phenomena that appear to be well understood are much more mysterious than it seems. In spite of the numerous applications that rely on the presence or absence of bubbles, no advanced scientific ...

If you want to keep enjoying apples, melons and blueberries, bees need to be healthy and cared for. Many plants rely almost entirely on bees as natural pollinators to produce some of nature’s most ...

Glowing bubbles: A soap bubble lasing on the end of a capillary tube. (Courtesy: Matjaž Humar and Zala Korenjak/Jožef Stefan Institute) Soap has long been a household staple, but scientists in ...

The first thing you notice when you walk into the theater is the smell of soap, followed by a faint stickiness on the carpeted floors, and a tacky coating on the armrests of the seats. When the lights ...

Soap bubbles facilitated the pollination of a pear orchard by delivering pollen grains to targeted flowers, demonstrating that this whimsical technique can successfully pollinate fruit-bearing plants.