When you're waiting for a pot of water to heat up on the stove, tiny bubbles are the first sign it's getting ready to boil. As the water gets hotter, the bubbles get bigger, until a rolling boil ...

The observations that drove this study came from nature. On a dewy spring morning, small droplets of water form on plant leaves. As the plants release oxygen through their leaves, air bubbles pass ...

Invisible microbubbles forming on everyday plastics can peel off microscopic fragments, revealing a low-energy and widespread pathway for plastic pollution that operates wherever water meets plastic.