It took a YouTube video, a walk-in freezer kept at negative 20 degrees Celsius, and some very cold-tolerant engineering students for researchers to finally figure out why freezing soap bubbles ...

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A soap bubble is a very thin layer of water sandwiched between two layers of soap molecules (also called surfactant molecules). These soap molecules have a “head” that likes water (scientists say it’s ...

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Studying tiny water bubbles that collapse in intense flashes of light and heat, scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have added a skeptical note to a growing controversy over ...

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If verified, this controversial claim by a U.S.-Russian team of university and government researchers might lead to new power sources and other payoffs, the experimenters say. Those could include ...