Aurélie Hourlier‑Fargette, winner of the 2025 JPhys Materials Early Career Award, discusses the inspirations behind her interdisciplinary work on bubble assemblies and foam-based materials ...

Researchers have made a revolutionary find after learning that air bubbles in liquid exhibit an unexpected 'galloping' motion when shaken vertically. Surprisingly, instead of following the expected up ...

Imagination has never been the most intractable problem in the physics of warp drive; it has been bookkeeping. The Alcubierre concept of 1994, the celebrated one, fits in the general relativity theory ...

Water droplets have a unique ability: They can leap from a surface on their own. This can happen for a variety of reasons, ...

Researchers at MIT have unlocked the hidden power of boiling by exploring its role in energy, cooling, and more, promising breakthroughs in efficiency and safety. Matteo Bucci, an associate professor ...

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 ...

It bears repeating: the world is complicated. Oh, it looks simple enough: your coffee pours from pot to cup, round things roll but square things don’t, stuff that goes up will come back down (usually) ...

The good news is that you, and everyone you love, will die long before it might happen. Now for the bad news. Someday, in the far-distant future, eons beyond its 13.8-billion-year adolescence, the ...