Oenophiles have debated the most desirable characteristics of bubbles in champagne and sparkling wines for centuries, with most purists swearing that the smaller the bubble, the better the wine. But ...

Researchers have created a headphone prototype that allows listeners to hear people speaking within a bubble with a programmable radius of 3 to 6 feet. Voices and sounds outside the bubble are quieted ...

We leave our comfortable Mercedes minivan and jump into a Lada taxi to drive to the famous mud volcanoes of Gobustan in Azerbaijan. My husband and I are amused both by the battered car—a relic of ...

A soap bubble’s swan song is a quiet “pfttt.” Put your ear next to a soap bubble, and you might hear a high-pitched sound as it bursts. Now, scientists have characterized that sound using an array of ...

Curtain of bubbles serves as aquatic equivalent of earplugs for fish near new Tappan Zee Bridge Sound%2C or pressure%2C waves from hammering can damage the hearing and harm organs of fish Bubble ...

Everyone loves the satisfying pop when a bubble bursts, but what exactly produces the sound? Adrien Bussonnière at Sorbonne University in Paris, France, and his colleagues studied audio of bubbles ...