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Irish mathematicians explain why Guinness bubbles sink (w/ video)

(Phys.org) -- Why do the bubbles in a glass of stout beer such as Guinness sink while the beer is settling, even though the bubbles are lighter than the surrounding liquid? That’s been a puzzling question ...

Physics / General Physics

created 9 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 12 | with audio podcast report

Hawaii lab turns laser-powered bubbles into microrobots

(Phys.org) -- A team of scientists from the University of Hawaii are working on microrobots created from bubbles of air in a saline solution. The bubbles take on their title of “robots” as a laser ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast weblog

The use of acoustic inversion to estimate the bubble size distribution in pipelines

New research from the University of Southampton has devised a new method to more accurately measure gas bubbles in pipelines.

Physics / General Physics

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New Interstellar Boundary Explorer data show heliosphere's long-theorized bow shock does not exist

For the last few decades, space scientists have generally accepted that the bubble of gas and magnetic fields generated by the sun – known as the heliosphere – moves through space, creating three ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Team develops new method for filming the release of medicine inside cells

Researchers at the University of Twente (The Netherlands) have developed a method to allow them to watch close-up how medicines are released in cells and to monitor their absorption at the level of individual ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Seeing inside the nose of an aircraft

Radio signals reach pilots on board an aircraft through the "radar dome", the rounded nose of the aircraft. But if errors occur during the production of this "nose", - tiny foreign particles, drops of water ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Bioreactor redesign dramatically improves yield

Scientists explain why a microalgae bioreactor redesign provides an order-of-magnitude improvement over conventional cultivation methods.

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers revolutionize closed captioning

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ever since closed video captioning was developed in the 1970s, it hasn't changed much. The words spoken by the characters or narrators scroll along at the bottom of the screen, enabling hearing ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (21) | comments 8 | with audio podcast report

Citizen scientists reveal a bubbly Milky Way

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of volunteers has pored over observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and discovered more than 5,000 "bubbles" in the disk of our Milky Way galaxy. Young, hot stars blow these ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 25 | with audio podcast

The indiscretions of a champagne bubble paparazzi

The innermost secrets of champagne bubbles are about to be unveiled in the Springer journal European Physical Journal ST. This fascinating work is the brainchild of Gérard Liger-Belair, a scientist tackli ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 14, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Champagne gases different out of a flute versus coupe

Champagne just isn't champagne without its bubbles, and a study highlights the effects that champagne glass shape and temperature can have on carbonation upon serving and the drinking experience. The full report is published ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

More environmental rules needed for shale gas, says Stanford geophysicist

In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama praised the potential of the country's tremendous supply of natural gas buried in shale. He echoed the recommendations for safe extraction made by ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Russia 'drills into' Antarctic subglacial lake

A Russian team has succeeded in drilling through four kilometres (2.5 miles) of ice to the surface of a mythical subglacial Antarctic lake which could hold as yet unknown life forms, reports said Monday.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 13

A galactic magnetic field in a lab bolsters astrophysical theory

Why is the universe magnetized? It's a question scientists have been asking for decades. Now, an international team of researchers including a University of Michigan professor have demonstrated that it could ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Bubble-propelled microrockets could operate in the human stomach

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recently, researchers have been designing a wide variety of self-propelled micromotors, many of which operate using an oxygen-bubble propulsion mechanism that requires a high concentration ...

Chemistry / Other

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature