Science news articles about 'bubbles'

  • Spitzer Spies a Stellar Bubble Blower

    ... Telescope shows a baby star 1,140 light-years away from Earth blowing two massive "bubbles." But instead of bubble gum, this youngster, called HH 46/47, is using powerful jets of gas to make bubbles ...
  • Faster than a Speeding Bubble

    What do melting chocolate and bubbles in a champagne glass have in common? Besides being treats one might sample at a sophisticated soiree, they are both handy examples of first-order phase ...
  • Engineers whip up the first long-lived nanoscale bubbles

    ... graduate student Emilie Dressaire in collaboration with Unilever colleagues, revealed that when the bubbles were covered with the chosen surfactant mixture, the surfactant molecules crystallized to ...
  • Engineers Whip Up First Long-lived Nanoscale Bubbles

    ... of Engineering and Applied Sciences have whipped up, for the first time, permanent nanoscale bubbles -- bubbles that endure for more than a year -- from batches of foam made from a mixture of glucose ...
  • Are We in the Peak of an Oil Bubble?

    ... a faster-than-exponential rate, and cannot be sustained. In other words, we`re in the midst of an oil bubble, say researchers Didier Sornette and Ryan Woodard of ETH Zurich in Switzerland and Wei-Xing ...
  • MIT instrument studies edge of sun's bubble

    The Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft have traveled beyond the edges of the bubble in space where the sun's constant outward wind of particles and radiation slams into the interstellar medium that pervades ...
  • Bubble Fusion Researcher Charged with Misconduct [News]

    The tempest over bubble fusion--the much-disputed 2002 claim that collapsing bubbles can spark fusion reactions--may finally have fizzled out. [More]
  • Life in a bubble

    ... important: The closer together the hairs, the greater the mechanical stability and the more pressure the bubble can withstand before collapsing. However, mechanical stability comes at a cost. If ...
  • A Problem of Bubbles Frames an Olympic Design

    The new Beijing National Aquatics Center -- no ordinary building -- is a box made of bubbles.
  • A bug's life... in a bubble

    ... is so pronounced that creatures may survive underwater for indefinite periods. This is achieved by an air bubble called a plastron that the insect traps between its body and its hairs, creating an ...
  • Why Gene Therapy Caused Leukemia In Some 'Boy In The Bubble Syndrome' Patients

    Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), sometimes called 'Boy in the bubble syndrome', is a genetic disorder in which the patient lacks most types of immune cell. Almost 10 years ago, two independent ...
  • Bubble kits sold at CNE may cause euphoria, hallucinations

    Health Canada is warning caregivers who may have purchased solvent-based bubble or balloon-blowing kits at Toronto's Canadian National Exhibition against using the products because they could pose ...
  • Blowing Bubbles On A Nanoscale

    ... are something of a mystery, yet it is possible to manipulate the development of these bubbles, according to experts. The bubbles can then, for example, be used to reduce flow resistance in liquids.
  • Blowing Bubbles On A Nanoscale

    ... are something of a mystery, yet it is possible to manipulate the development of these bubbles, according to experts. The bubbles can then, for example, be used to reduce flow resistance in liquids.
  • What a View! Space Bubbles Would Thrill Tourists

    Space tourists may get an unprecedented view of the Earth aboard a new bubble-like spaceship.

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