Blowing soap bubbles has amused children (and adults) for centuries. Recently people have begun blowing soap bubbles in sub-freezing weather. Just this last November, the physics of water crystal ...

The freeze front creates an unusual liquid flow on the surface of the soap bubbles, new research suggests. By Knvul Sheikh You may have seen the viral videos of photographers freezing soap bubbles ...

As ice crystals form at a bubble’s base, the change from liquid to solid releases heat. This “latent heat,” the heat that is absorbed or released in a phase transition, is trapped in the bottom of the ...

It's so cold in parts of the United States that a cup of boiling water tossed into the air can crystalize into ice and snow before it hits the ground. Videos of such strikingly weird phenomena in ...

Walking on Lake Baikal's frozen surface feels like stepping into another dimension. Travel to Lake Baikal at the most beautiful time of the year - when the legendary clear ice shines under your feet, ...

You’d think there’s nothing surprising left to discover about water. After all, researchers have been studying its properties for centuries. But today researchers at Department of Energy’s Pacific ...

Van der Waals (vdW) interaction between two-dimensional crystals (2D) can trap substances in high pressurized (of order 1 GPa) on nanobubbles. Increasing the adhesion between the 2D crystals further ...

Watching a bubble float effortlessly through the International Space Station may be mesmerizing and beautiful to witness, but that same bubble is also teaching researchers about how fluids behave ...

Microscopic bubbles can tell stories about Earth's biggest volcanic eruptions and geoscientists have discovered some of those stories are written in nanoparticles. Microscopic bubbles can tell stories ...